Itaque diutius ibi substitit ac, ne desides otio demitterent animos, iudices dedit praemiaque proposuit de virtute militari certantibus nova; qui fortissimi iudicati essent singulis militum milibus praefuturi erant'chiliarchas vocabant'tunc primum in hunc numerum copiis distributis; namque antea quingenariae cohortes fuerant nec fortitudini praemia cesserant.
For that reason he remained there longer than usual, and that the soldiers might not through leisure and idleness become less spirited, he appointed judges and offered to those who wished to enter a contest in military valour prizes of a new kind; those who should have been judged the bravest were each to command a troop of 1000 men'they called them chiliarchae'this being the first time that the forces were divided into that number; for previously there had been lochoi consisting of 500 men, and the prizes of command had not gone to bravery.
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