Note 068
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Olympiodorus (apud Photium, p. 180 [p. 57, ed. Bekker]) uses the Latin word Ancient Greek which does not convey any precise idea. I suspect that they were the princes and nobles with their faithful companions - the knights with their squires, as they would have been styled some centuries afterwards.

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