στρᾰτηγ-ός, ὁ (the
feminine in [
Refs 5th c.BC+] and
Doric dialect στρᾰτᾱγός [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
Aeolic dialect στρότᾱγος [
Refs]:—
leader or
commander of an army, general, [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἀνὴρ σ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ναύαρχος (admiral), [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) generally,
commander, governor, πόλει κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν σ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
3) with
genitive, στρατηγοὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4)
metaphorically, παραλαβὼν. οἶνον σ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; στρατηγοὶ κυνηγεσίων
masters of hounds, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; so
strategum te facio huic convivio, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II) at Athens, the title of 10
officers elected by yearly vote to command the army and navy, and conduct the war-department at home, commanders in chief and ministers of war, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; when distinguished from ναύαρχος and ἵππαρχος, the στρατηγός is
commander of the infantry, Decrees cited in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; χειροτονηθεὶς σ. ἐπὶ τὸ ναυτικόν, ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα, [
Refs]
II.2) also of
chief magistrates of the cities of Asia Minor, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of many other Greek states, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3) in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt,
military and civil governor of a nome, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also in other parts of the Ptolemaic empire, e.g. at Calynda in Caria, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; in Cyprus, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σ. τῆς πόλεως at Alexandria, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; at Ptolemais, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.4) σ. ὕπατος
consul, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also ς. alone, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+] alone, see at {ὕπατο; σ. ἀνθύπατος}
proconsul, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἑξαπέλεκυς σ.
praetor, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; used of the
praetor urbanus, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; ς. alone, =
praetor, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]: also of the
duumviri or
chief magistrates of Roman colonies, as of Philippi, [
NT]: later of the
Comes Orientis, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
II.5)
an officer who had the custody of the Temple at Jerusalem, ὁ σ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ [
NT+1st c.AD+]
II.6) νυκτερινὸς σ.
superintendent of police at Alexandria, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.7) ={φαλαγγάρχης} (which see), [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]