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Cohors amicorum is a Latin term, literally meaning "cohort of friends". The notion cohort is to be taken not in the strict, military sense (primarily the constitutive unit of a legion; circa battalion), but indicated a fairly large number; accordingly, friend is to be taken is a loose sense, rather as in amicus curiae, compare the Hellenistic Aulic title philos (basilikos).