I.one who begins or leads the war, a leader, chieftain, Aesch.
II.a Polemarch,
1.at Athens, the third archon, who presided in the court in which the causes of the μέτοικοι were tried, Ar.;—in earlier times he was general-in-chief, as at Marathon, Hdt.
2.at Sparta, a kind of brigadier, id=Hdt., Thuc., etc.
3.at Thebes officers of chief rank after the Boeotarchs, Xen.
4.similarly at Mantineia, and in other states, Thuc.
