tagmata in a sentence
Examples
- Thus, from the 960s, more and more professional regiments, both from the old " tagmata " and newly raised formations, were stationed along the border.
- Nevertheless, the " tagmata ", as indeed military and state service in general, offered a degree of upwards social mobility for the lower strata of society.
- In those Arachnida that have two tagmata, but not usually in the Crustacea, the abdomen also is called the opisthosoma, meaning the after-part of the body.
- In 713, the Opsikian army rose up against Philippikos Bardanes ( r . 711 713 ), the man who overthrew and murdered Justinian, and enthroned tagmata ".
- Usually the term is taken to refer to tagmata in the morphology of members of the phylum Arthropoda, but it applies equally validly in other phyla, such as the Chordata.
- The body of an adult butterfly or moth ( imago ) has three distinct divisions, called tagmata, connected at constrictions; these tagmata are the head, thorax and abdomen.
- The body of an adult butterfly or moth ( imago ) has three distinct divisions, called tagmata, connected at constrictions; these tagmata are the head, thorax and abdomen.
- In response, emperor Romanos I Lekapenos ( r . 920 944 ) summoned the commanders of the " tagmata " on a feast and urged them to confront the Bulgarians.
- Unlike the other cavalry " tagmata ", which were mostly garrisoned outside Constantinople in Thrace and Bithynia, the " Vigla " had a significant presence in the capital.
- After ca . 1050, like the thematic armies, the original " tagmata " slowly declined, and were decimated in the military disasters of the latter third of the 11th century.