strategus
Americannoun
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Around it squatted seven men who rose and bowed as the strategus entered.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
At this period the college of ephebi was a miniature city; its members called themselves “citizens,” and it possessed an archon, strategus, herald and other officials, after the model of ancient Athens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
It is probable that the ephebia was in existence in the 5th century B.C., and controlled by the Areopagus and strategus as its moral and military supervisors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
The strategus and the orator having drawn for the letters, the urns are prepared accordingly by one of the commissioners and the two censors.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by Harrington, James
"By Pallas the guardian," said Cimon, "it is the Athenian vessels that the strategus honours with his first visit."
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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