The troops
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al-ajnād · the armies · the troops · الاجناد · الجيوش · al-jund · men of force · the others · their commanders · troops
spoken of as
1 expressiontroops1 mention
Against Olympiodorus (Greek)
And it happened by a piece of good luck that you were persuaded by the politicians to despatch troops into Acarnania, and the defendant Olympiodorus was among those called to service, and he departed with the others on the expedition.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The standing armies of the realm, whose rest is a policy aim, whose riot signals misrule, and whose yield depends on their commanders.
what the subjects have is brought out only by their governors, what the troops have only by their commanders, and what is in religion and interpretation only by its scholars.
Word reached al-Maʼmūn that the troops in Khurāsān had rioted and plundered, and he wrote to his governor there:
the ease of peace, safety from the peril of open combat, the preservation of monies, and the rest of the troops.
Against Olympiodorus
The military force sent to Acarnania with which Olympiodorus served and later returned.
And it happened by a piece of good luck that you were persuaded by the politicians to despatch troops into Acarnania, and the defendant Olympiodorus was among those called to service, and he departed with the others on the expedition.
But when he returned with the rest of the troops, the defendant Olympiodorus was indignant, men of the jury, at what had occurred, and thought he had been outrageously treated.