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ταξι?́αρχ-ος , ὁ,
A.commander of a corps or squadron, “ταξίαρχοι ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν” Hdt.8.67; “ταξίαρχοι τῶν τελέων” Id.9.42; “τ. καὶ πεζῶν καὶ ἱππέων” X.Cyr.8.1.10; in the army of Alexander, Arr.An.3.9.6; in Ptolemaic Egypt, PMich.Zen.70.5 (iii B.C.); cf. ταξιάρχης.
2. commander of a τάξις (128 men), Ascl.Tact.2.8, Ael.Tact.9.3 (“-άρχης” Arr.Tact.10.2).
3. = Lat. centurio, Plb.6.24.1, al., Zos.3.11.
b. = tribunus militum, D.H.5.41, J.BJ3.5.2, Plu.Cam.37, App.BC5.61, Agath.2.20 (“-άρχης” Plu.Pomp.32, App.BC3.39).
c. = legatus legionis, anachronism in App.Sam.4.6 (-άρχαι codd.).
d. = ordinarius, Lyd.Mag.1.46, Gloss.; also glossed by manipularis and evocatus, ib.
II. at Athens, commander of a τάξις, or quota of infantry furnished by a φυλή, Ar.Ach.569 (lyr.), Pax 1172 (troch.), Av.353 (troch.), Th.4.4, 7.60, Arist.Ath.30.2, D.4.26, 54.5, Aeschin.3.169, IG22.334.13; [“ὁ τ.] ἡγεῖται τῶν φυλετῶν καὶ λοχαγοὺς καθίστησιν” Arist.Ath.61.3; applied to naval officers, X.HG1.6.29,35.
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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