Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.

Yet all this season were we willing blind, / Offended, unreveng'd; wrong'd, but unwroken.

The earthquake shook the building.

Ælian calls the heavy-armed infantry, ὁπλίται, hoplitæ; and the heavy horse soldiers, καταφρακτοι, cataphracti;—we denominate the former completely-armed troops, and the latter cuirassiers.— … The cuirassiers carried targets and used pikes. The Parthian cataphracts had also bows and arrows.