‖ strategus Gr. Hist.
(strəˈtiːgəs)
Pl. -gi (-dʒaɪ). Also with Gr. ending strategos (strəˈtiːgɒs), pl. -oi.
[L. stratēgus, a. Gr. στρατηγός (Doric στρατᾱγός), f. στρατ-ός army + -ᾱγ-, ἄγειν to lead. Cf. stratege.]
A commander-in-chief or chief magistrate at Athens and in the Achæan league (also in Harrington's imaginary commonwealth).
| 1656 Harrington Oceana (1700) 123 The Strategus is first President of the Senat, and General of the Army. 1728 Chambers Cycl. 1808 Mitford Hist. Greece xli. §i. IV. 528 It was found convenient that the strategus, the first general, should have a discretionary power to call extraordinary assemblies of the people. 1847 Grote Greece ii. xxxi. IV. 192 The stratêgi or generals, who were always elected by show of hands of the assembled citizens. 1909 H. M. Gwatkin Early Ch. Hist. I. vi. 92 Even Constantine was a strategos of Athens in the direct succession of Themistocles and Phocion. |