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τάγμα , ατος, τό, (τάσσω)
A.ordinance, command, νόμου τ. Pl.Def.414e; ἐκ δυοῖν τ. from a combination of two ordinances, Arist.Pol.1294b6.
II. fixed assessment or payment, Id.Oec.1349a24, CIG2562.14 (Crete).
III. body of soldiers, division, brigade, X.Mem.3.1.11, PFrankf.7.5 (iii B.C.), Ph.Bel.96.48, 103.28, PRein.14.31 (ii B.C.), Plb.3.85.3, etc.
b. = Lat. manipulus, Id.6.24.5.
c. = Lat. legio, legion, D.H.6.42, Str.3.3.8, Plu.Oth. 12, D.C.71.9, CIG4693 (Abukir).
IV. order, rank, IG 14.757 (Naples); βουλευτικὸν τ. CIG 4411b5 (Cilicia); ἱππικὸν τ. ib.2803 (Aphrodisias); “τὸ τ. τῶν γυμνασιάρχων” POxy.1252v. 24 (iii A.D.); τοῦ πρώτου τ. IG42(1).81 (Epid., i A.D.): acc. τάγμα as Adv., CIG3765 (dub.), cf. IG14.748 (Naples).
V. generally, arrangement, of footprints, τίς ὁ τρόπος τοῦ τ.; S.Ichn.114; row of bricks, dub. in Alc.153.
2. status, “φύσεως τάγμα ἔχειν” Epicur.Ep.1p.24U.; function, Phld.Po.5 Fr.1; ἐν τ. γενόμενοι c. inf., being in a position to . . , PLond.2.358.7 (ii A.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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.1.11
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.85.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.24.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.3.8
    • Plutarch, Otho, 12
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.42
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