thumb|Seal of Niketas, and of the Cibyrrhaeots (10th/11th century) ' (), Latinized as ', was a mid-ranking Byzantine court dignity used in the 7th–11th centuries.
thumb|Seal of Niketas, and of the Cibyrrhaeots (10th/11th century) ' (), Latinized as ', was a mid-ranking Byzantine court dignity used in the 7th–11th centuries.
==History== The title was created as a portmanteau of the titles and , both of which were types of palace guards in the 4th–6th centuries. The earliest references to the title occur in the History of Sebeos and in a letter by Pope Gregory II to Emperor Leo III the Isaurian (). John B. Bury accepted a creation in the early 7th century, but the title is clearly attested only from the early 9th century on. In the 9th-century lists of precedence (Taktika), the dignity ranks below that of and above that of among the dignities intended for 'bearded men' (i.e. non-eunuchs). Its distinctive insigne () was a golden chain () worn around the chest.
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