Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Ilé

（ἴλη or εἴλη, “a troop”).

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1.

The Spartan term for a company of boys of the same age, who were brought up together. (See Education.)

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2.

In the organization of the Macedonian army, a squadron of cavalry, generally 200 strong, under the command of an ilarches. See Hippeis.