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Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib:

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold…

The sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea,

When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

A cohort is not an item of clothing or armour but a division of the old Roman Army: the tenth part of a legion, 300 to 600 men.

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