στρᾰτηγ-ός, ὁ
(the fem. in Ar. Ec. 491, 500 is merely comic), Arc. and Dor. στρᾰτᾱγός IG 5(2).6.9 (Tegea, iv B.C. ), SIG 597 B (Thermum, iii B.C. ), etc.; Aeol. στρότᾱγος IG 12 (2).6.7 (Mytil.), 11(2).1064b27 ( Delos ): -
leader or commander of an army, general, Archil. 58.1, A. Th. 816, Arist. Ath. 22.3, etc.; ἀνὴρ ς . A. Ag. 1627, Pl. Ion 540d; opp. ναύαρχος (admiral), S. Aj. 1232 (v. infr. 11.1 ).
2. generally, commander, governor, πόλει κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν ς . Id. Ant. 8, cf. Arist. Mu. 398a29 .
3. c. gen., στρατηγοὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ Hdt. 7.83; τῶν παραθαλασσίων Id. 5.25, etc.; Ἀχαιῶν S. Aj. l.c.; στρατεύματος X. An. 1.7.12 .
4. metaph., παραλαβὼν . . οἶνον ς . Antiph. 18; στρατηγοὶ κυνηγεσίων masters of hounds, Arist. Mu. 398a24; so strategum te facio huic convivio, Plaut. Stich. 702.
II at Athens, the title of 10 officers elected by yearly vote to command the army and navy, and conduct the war-department at home, commanders in chief and ministers of war, Hdt. 6.109, Th. 1.61, 4.2, Arist. Ath. 26.1, 44.4, 61.1, D. 4.25; οἱ ς. οἱ εἰς Σικελίαν And. 1.11, cf. IG 12.302.46, al.; ς. εἵλοντο δέκα X. HG 1.5.16, cf. Eup. 117.4, pl.Com. 185, etc.; τῷ ς. τῷ ἐπὶ τὰς συμμορίας ᾑρημένῳ IG 22.1629.209; when distd. from ναύαρχος and ἵππαρχος, the στρατηγός is commander of the infantry, Decr. ap. D. 18.184, Arist. Ath. 4.2; χειροτονηθεὶς ς. ἐπὶ τὸ ναυτικόν, ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα, IG 22.682.5,31; ἐπὶ τὴν παρασκευήν ib.22; ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν ib.24.
2. also of chief magistrates of the cities of Asia Minor, Hdt. 5.38; of many other Greek states, IG 5(2) l.c. (Tegea, iv B.C. ), 12(9).191 A 44 (Eretria, iv B.C. ), OGI 329.42 (Aegina, ii B.C. ), Timae. 114, Plb. 2.43.1, etc.
3. in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, military and civil governor of a nome, PEnteux. 1.12, al. (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 351.4 (iii B.C.), BGU 1730.11 (i B.C.), OGI 184.3 (Philae, i B.C. ), Wilcken Chr. 41 ii 6 (iii A.D.), 43.1 (iv A.D.); also in other parts of the Ptolemaic empire, e.g. at Calynda in Caria, PCair.Zen. 341 ( a ). 20 (iii B.C.); in Cyprus, OGI 84 (iii B.C.); ὁ ς. τῆς Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης ib. 186 (Philae, i B.C. ); in the Attalid empire, ib.267.13 (Pergam., iii B.C. ), al.; ς. τῆς πόλεως at Alexandria, BGU 729.1 (ii A.D.); at Ptolemais, OGI 743 = Raccolta Lumbroso 299 (i B.C.), Sammelb. 7027 (ii A.D.) .
4. ς. ὕπατος consul, IG 5(1).1165 (Gythium, ii B.C. ), 9(2).338 (Cyretiae, ii B.C. ), 42(1).306 D (Epid., ii B.C. ), Plb. 1.52.5; also ς . alone, Id. 1.7.12, al., SIG 685.20 (Crete, ii B.C. ), and ὕπατος alone, v. ὕπατος; ς. ἀνθύπατος proconsul, ib.826 I 1 (Delph., ii B.C. ), 745.2 (Rhodes, i B.C. ); ἑξαπέλεκυς ς . praetor, Plb. 3.106.6; used of the praetor urbanus, Id. 33.1.5; called ς. κατὰ πόλιν IG 14.951 (i B.C.), etc.; ς . alone, = praetor, D.H. 2.6, Arr. Epict. 2.1.26: also of the duumviri or chief magistrates of Roman colonies, as of Philippi, [Act 16:20]: later of the Comes Orientis, Lib. Or. 56.21 .
5. an officer who had the custody of the Temple at Jerusalem, ὁ ς. τοῦ ἱεροῦ Ev.[Luk 22:52], [Act 4:1], J. BJ 6.5.3 .
6. νυκτερινὸς ς . superintendent of police at Alexandria, Str. 17.1.12 .
7. = φαλαγγάρχης (q.v.), Arr. Tact. 10.7, Ael. Tact. 9.8 .
G4755 — στρατηγός
στρατηγοῦ, ὁ (στρατός and ἄγω), from Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for סֶגֶן (only plural סְגָנִים);
1. the commander of an army.
2. in the N. T. a civic commander, a governor (the name of the duumviri or highest magistrates in the municipia and colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases; οἱ τῆς πόλεως στρατηγοί, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 4, 49; of civil magistrates as early as Herodotus 5, 38; (see references in Meyer on [Act 16:20]; Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2f; cf. Farrar, St. Paul, i., excurs. xvi.)): plural (R. V. magistrates (after A. V.), with marginal reading Gr. praetors), [Act 16:20], [Act 16:22], [Act 16:35]f (38).
3. στρατηγός τοῦ ἱεροῦ, 'captain of the temple' (A. V.), i. e. the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 6, 2; (B. D., under the word , 3; Edersheim, The Temple etc., chapter vii., 2 edition, p. 119f)): [Act 4:1]; [Act 5:24]; plural [Luk 22:52]; simply (A. V. captain), [Act 5:26]; [Luk 22:4].