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στρα^τηγ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.office of general, command, Hdt.1.59, 5.26, E.Andr.678,704, Eup. 100, Phryn.Com.22, etc.; παραλύειν τινὰ τῆς ς. Hdt.6.94; ἀνάσσων Ἑλλάδος στρατηγίας being chief general of Greece, E.IT17; τυραννίδος μᾶλλον . . μίμησις ἢ ς. Th. 1.95; of a naval command, Id.5.26, X.HG6.2.13.
2. at Athens, office of στρατηγός, Ar.Pl.192, Aeschin. 2.41: in pl., Pl.Ap.36b, R.599c, etc.; ἐν ταῖς ἐνιαυσίοις ς. Plu.Per. 16: presidency of the Achaean league, Plb.4.37.1, etc.; in Egypt, office of στρατηγός, πρὸς τῇ ς. deputy-στρατηγός, PEnteux.63.10 (iii B.C.), UPZ108.28 (ii B.C.); πρὸς τῇ ς. also,= στρατηγός, BGU12.6 (ii A.D.); at Rome, praetorship, Plu.Cat.Mi.39, Sull.5, etc.; cf. “στρατηγός” 11.3,4.
3. period of command, campaign, X.HG6.2.39.
4. troops commanded by one general, command, prob. in OGI 266.54 (Pergam., iii B.C.).
II. generalship, X.Cyr.1.6.14, Mem. 3.1.5, Pl.Euthd.307a, etc.; piece of strategy, D.S.17.23.
III. province governed by a στρατηγός, Str.12.1.4, al., Plin.HN6.27, App.Mith. 105.
IV. = φαλαγγαρχία, a force of 4096 men, Arr.Tact.10.7, Ael.Tact.9.8.
2. = στρατιά (which is found in codd. AB), LXX Ju.5.3.
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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