Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, στρα^τηγ-έω

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A.to be general, Hdt.5.28, E.Heracl.391; esp. at Athens (v. “στρατηγός” 11), Ar.Eq. 288, Nu.586, Th.1.57, etc.; “προγόνων εἶναι τῶν ἐστρατηγηκότων” Aeschin.1.27, cf. D.34.50; καὶ πολιτεύεσθαι καὶ ς. Isoc.5.140; ς. ἀπὸ μεγάλων (sc. τιμημάτων) they are eligible as general beginning from a high property-qualification, Arist.Pol.1282a31: in Egypt, hold the office of στρατηγός, BGU1297.4 (iii B.C.), PEnteux.8.10 (iii B.C.), etc.: at Rome, to be consul, Plb.2.21.7, 3.114.6; more freq., to be praetor, Plu.Ant.6; “στρατηγῶν καὶ ὑπατεύων” Id.Cat.Ma.4, cf. Arr.Epict.4.1.149.

b. c. gen., to be general of an army, τῶν Λυδῶν, Ἐρετριέων, etc., Hdt.1.34, 5.102, etc.; freq. in Att., Th.1.29, D.20.82, etc.; also “ς. τῆς Σάμου” Plu.Per.26; “πολέμου” D.H.3.22 (v.l. -ον）; ποῦ σὺ στρατηγεῖς τοῦδε; S.Aj.1100.

c. c. dat., “ἐστρατήγησε Λακεδαιμονίοισι ἐς Θεσσαλίην” Hdt.6.72, cf. A.Eu.25, E.Tr.926, Andr.324, Lys.13.62; but ς. Ξέρξῃ to be general of his army, Paus. 9.1.3.

d. folld. by a Prep., “ς. ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ” And.4.13; “ἐν Τροίᾳ” S.El.1; “ἐς Θεσσαλίην” Hdt. (v. supr. c); ς. ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἀσίας serve as general on the side of Asia, Isoc.4.154.

e. c. inf., manoeuvre so as . . , “μάχην θέσθαι” Plu.Pyrrh.21, cf. Crass.25, etc.

f. c. acc. cogn., ς. στρατηγίας And 1.147, Dinsmoor Archons of Athens 7; ναυμαχίαν, πόλεμον, D.13.21, 49.25: with neut. Adj., do a thing as general, “τοῦτο” X.An.7.6.40; πάντα ὑπὲρ Φιλίππου carry on the whole war in Philip's favour, D.3.6; τοιαῦτα ς. manage matters so in his command, Hdt.9.107; εἰ μὲν ἄλλο τι καλῶς ἐστρ. X.HG6.5.51 —Pass., “τὰ στρατηγούμενα” D.4.25,47.

g. Pass., to be commanded by a general, “ἡ πόλις . . ὑπὸ ὑμῶν . . στρατηγεῖται” Pl.Ion 541c; “στρατιὰ ὑπό τινων στρατηγουμένη” Isoc.4.185; “δυοῖν . . στρατηγεῖται φυγή” E.Heracl.39; στρατηγηθῆναι serve under a στρατηγός, Arist. Pol.1277b11; to be governed as a province, App.Mith.105.

2. metaph., ἡ τύχη ἐστρ. X.An.2.2.13, cf. 3.2.27; “ἐστρ. ἡ σιωπὴ τὸν ἀγῶνα” Plu.2.506e.

II. c. acc. pers., out-general, D.4.41 (Pass.), Plb.3.71.1, 9.25.6, LXX 2 Ma.14.31 (Pass.), cf. D.H.5.29 codd.: metaph. of Homer, “δημαγωγῶν καὶ στρατηγῶν τὰ πλήθη” Str.1.2.9; in Med., of Pythagoras, Socr.Ep.28 (τερατευσαμένῳ Hercher).

2. c. acc. rei, τῷ σχήματι τοῦ προσώπου στρατηγεῖν τὴν τοῦ πλήθους εὐθυμίαν (of a general) Onos.13.3.

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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