cognatusi regis -- contingent of Persian king's bodyguard

    cōgnātus adj.    [com- + GEN-], sprung from the same stock, related by blood, kindred: mihi: patres, the relationship of our fathers, V.: per cognata corpora supplex, as a kinsman, O.: anguilla cognata colubrae, Iu.—Of a kinsman, of kindred: latus, O.: pectora, O.: urbes, V.: sanguis, V.: caelum, O.: faba Pythagorae (alluding to the doctrine of transmigration), H. — Fig., kindred, congenial, related, connected, like, similar: alqd mentibus nostris: vocabula, H. I II

    cognātus ī, m    [1 cognatus], a kinsman, blood-relation: his proximus, T.: amici cognatique alcius: est tibi mater, Cognati? H.: cognatorum aliquis, Iu. I II