Protostates

A protostates (Greek: πρωτοστάτης, lit.

The Greek phalanx was made up of alternate ranks of protostates and epistates.

[2] The term remained in use into the Byzantine Empire.

The foremost protostates of a file (lochos) was called a lochagos (λοχαγός).

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