How Many Miles to Babylon? How Many Miles to Babylon? "How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. The accepted modern lyrics are: <poem>How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again.. If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You may get there by candle-light.</poem> A longer Scottish version has the lyrics: <poem>King and Queen of Cantelon, How many miles to Babylon? Eight and eight, and other eight. Will I get there by candle-light? If your horse be
Droungarios of the Watch front and another with the emperor on horseback on the rear. The dignity survived until the end of the Byzantine Empire. The historian Sphrantzes equated the Ottoman post of Agha of the Janissaries to the Grand "Droungarios" of the Watch. Droungarios of the Watch The "Droungarios" of the Watch (, "droungarios tēs viglēs/viglas"), sometimes anglicized as "Drungary of the Watch", was originally a senior Byzantine military post. Attested since the late 8th century, the "droungarios" commanded the "Vigla" or "Watch", one of the elite professional cavalry regiments ("tagmata") of the middle Byzantine period, and was in charge of the Byzantine