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πρωτο-στάτης [α^], ου, ὁ, （ἵστημι)
A.one who stands first, esp. the first man on the right of a line, right-hand man, “ὁ π. τοῦ δεξιοῦ κέρως” Th.5.71; but also οἱ π. the front-rank men, X.Cyr.3.3.57, 6.3.24, Lac.11.5, etc.; either sense possible in Teles p.4 H.
2. = λοχαγός, Ael.Tact.5.1, Arr. Tact.5.6.
3. man in the uneven rows in a λόχος, opp. ἐπιστάτης, Ascl.Tact.2.3, etc.
II. metaph., chief or leader of a party, Act.Ap. 24.5; “π. τοῦ χοροῦ τῶν μαθητῶν” Porph.Chr.26.1; π. τοῦ θητικοῦ καὶ οἰκετικοῦ Men.Prot.p.8 D.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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