Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pl. strategi (-jī). A military commander in ancient Greece: as, Diæus was strategus of the Achean League.
- noun [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of large American scarabæid beetles, whose males usually have three prothoracic horns. They are mainly tropical and subtropical, but S. antæus extends north to Massachusetts.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of mollusks.
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- noun (Gr. Antiq.) The leader or commander of an army; a general.
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- noun The
leader orcommander of anarmy ; ageneral .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have little in this order to observe and prove but that the strategus is the same honor both in name and thing that was borne, among others, by Philopemen and Aratus in the Commonwealth of the Achaeans; the like having been in use also with the AEtolians.
The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644
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_, III, 233 ff.) -- Socrates, in Plato's _Apologia_ (p. 28 E), incidentally likens the philosophic mission imposed on him by the divinity to the campaigns he waged under the orders of the archons, but the comparison of God with a "strategus" was developed especially by the
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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The most serious is this, that the woman, who has given birth to a useful citizen, whether taxiarch or strategus should receive some distinction; a place of honour should be reserved for her at the Stenia, the Scirophoria, and the other festivals that we keep.
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[618] The taxiarch had the command of 128 men; the strategus had the direction of an army.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The most serious is this, that the woman, who has given birth to a useful citizen, whether taxiarch or strategus [618] should receive some distinction; a place of honour should be reserved for her at the Sthenia, the Scirophoria, [619] and the other festivals that we keep.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The text says that a strategus from Ariaramneia [Greek: emageuse Mithrêi].
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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He had been elected “strategus,” to serve on the board of generals along with Themistocles.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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At last, a knock; Scodrus, the yawning valet, ushering in a black and bearded sailor, who crouched eastern fashion at the feet of the strategus.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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Around it squatted seven men who rose and bowed as the strategus entered.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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The hundreds of onlookers saw him embrace the young strategus in
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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