Page boy (wedding attendant) Page boy (wedding attendant) A page boy is a young male attendant at a wedding or cotillion, a social dance. This type of wedding attendant is less common than it used to be, but is still a way of including young relatives or the children of relatives and friends in a wedding. A page is often seen at British royal weddings. There may be many pages for effect at cotillions. Traditionally, page boys carry the bride's train, especially if the bride is wearing a dress with a long train. Because of the difficulty of managing the train, page boys are
Decarch (military rank) required to reach the rank of decarch and its attendant 12 "nomismata" in pay. The pay scales reported by al-Jarmi match in proportion, although not precisely in amount, the later pay scales of Constantine VII. Decarch (military rank) Decarch ( (), ) was a rank in the Late Roman army, used in the East Roman army, among Greek-speaking soldiers, that continued on as a Byzantine military rank. In Latin, the rank was called "decurio" (initially, in the cavalry only) and later decanus (in both the infantry and cavalry); the Greek term is Latinised as "decarchus". It referred to the second