Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A title of several officials in ancient Greek states.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical, Ancient Greece, originally The
military commander in chief inAthens . - noun historical, Ancient Greece A
civil magistrate inAthens who hadjurisdiction in respect ofstrangers andsojourners . - noun historical, Ancient Greece In other Greek cities, a high military and civil
officer .
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Examples
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Perhaps Callimachus, the acting polemarch, would have had a different story to tell -- but he died in the fighting, leaving Miltiades to shape post-battle narrative.
Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon 2010
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Perhaps Callimachus, the acting polemarch, would have had a different story to tell -- but he died in the fighting, leaving Miltiades to shape post-battle narrative.
Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon 2010
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Perhaps Callimachus, the acting polemarch, would have had a different story to tell -- but he died in the fighting, leaving Miltiades to shape post-battle narrative.
Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon Asher Smith 2010
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These they fell foul of, and the senior polemarch was just on the point of closing with them “breast to breast” when some one, it is said, shouted, “Let their front ranks pass.”
Hellenica 2007
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It was then that Gylis the polemarch met his end, as also Pelles, who was on his personal staff, and the whole of the Spartans present without exception — eighteen or thereabouts — perished, either crushed by stones or succumbing to other wounds.
Hellenica 2007
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Phoebidas the Lacedaemonians despatched a polemarch with a division by sea to form the garrison of Thespiae.
Hellenica 2007
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Then the polemarch ordered the ten-years-service men329 to charge and drive off their assailants.
Hellenica 2007
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Arrived at a point within three miles or so325 of Sicyon, the polemarch turned back himself in the direction of Lechaeum with his heavy infantry regiment, six hundred strong, giving orders to the cavalry commandant to escort the Amyclaeans with his division as far as they required, and then to turn and overtake him.
Hellenica 2007
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These attacks told so severely that the polemarch a second time gave the order (and this time for the fifteen-years-service men) to charge.
Hellenica 2007
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He, holding to his former theory with regard to the invasion, even before sacrificing the customary frontier sacrifice, sent a despatch to the polemarch at Thespiae, with orders to seize the pass which commands the road over
Hellenica 2007
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