Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Greek military officer commanding a company or battalion, or more usually a larger division of an army, as a cohort or a brigade. In the Greek Church, St. Michael is commonly called “the Taxiarch” as the captain of the celestial armies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Antiq.) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
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- noun historical, Ancient Greece An
Athenian military officer commanding a certaindivision of anarmy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aristocrates with his own tribe, which, as taxiarch, he commanded, seized Alexicles, an oligarchical general who had been most concerned with the clubs, and shut him up in a house.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Or, “brigadier or captain,” lit. taxiarch or lochagos.
Memorabilia 2007
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The most serious is this, that the woman, who has given birth to a useful citizen, whether taxiarch or strategus should receive some distinction; a place of honour should be reserved for her at the Stenia, the Scirophoria, and the other festivals that we keep.
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The most serious is this, that the woman, who has given birth to a useful citizen, whether taxiarch or strategus [618] should receive some distinction; a place of honour should be reserved for her at the Sthenia, the Scirophoria, [619] and the other festivals that we keep.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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[618] The taxiarch had the command of 128 men; the strategus had the direction of an army.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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