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A Greek cavalry (hippikon) regiment was known as a hipparchia and was commanded by an epihipparch. The unit was break up into two and led by two hipparchos or hipparch, but Spartan cavalry was led by a hipparmostes. A hippotoxotès was a mounted archer. A Greek cavalry enterprise was led by a tetrarchès or tetrarch.A captain in the army is usually