polemarch

/ ˈpɒlɪˌmɑːk /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general

Word History and Origins

Origin of polemarch¹

C16: from Greek polemarchos, from polemos war + archos ruler

Example Sentences

“Don’t sit up, Ender. It’s all right. It looks like we might win it. Not all the Warsaw Pact people went with the Polemarch. A lot of them came over when the Strategos told them you were loyal to the I.F.”

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He was treated with equal friendliness by Antigonus’s son Demetrius, who made him polemarch of Thespiae, and by Antigonus Gonatas, at whose court he died at the age of 104.

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The Polemarchicus, like the Menexenus of Plato and the Epitaphios Logos of Hypereides, is a panegyric of those who had given their lives for their country; it is so called because it was originally the duty of the polemarch to arrange the funeral games in honour of those who had fallen in battle.

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It is stated that he first ingratiated himself with the people by his liberal conduct when Polemarch, in which capacity he had to exact the fines imposed by the law.

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Polemarch, pol′e-mark, n. a title of several officials in ancient Greek states.

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