στρατηγέω

στρᾰτηγ-έω, [dialect] Dor. [full] στρᾰτᾱγέω SIG 421.16 (Thermum, iii B.C.), etc.; [dialect] Aeol. [full] στροτᾱγέω IGRom.4.1243 ([place name] Thyatira), but [pref] στρατ- in the duplicate, IG12(2).243.3 (Mytil.):—

A to be general, Hdt.5.28, E.Heracl.391; esp. at Athens (v.

στρατηγός 11

), Ar.Eq. 288, Nu.586, Th.1.57, etc.;

προγόνων εἶναι τῶν ἐστρατηγηκότων Aeschin.1.27

, cf. D.34.50; καὶ πολιτεύεσθαι καὶ ς. Isoc.5.140; σ. ἀπὸ μεγάλων (sc. τιμημάτων) they are eligible as general beginning from a high property-qualification, Arist.Pol.1282a31: in Egypt, hold the office of στρατηγός, BGU1297.4 (iii B.C.), PEnteux.8.10 (iii B.C.), etc.: at Rome, to be consul, Plb.2.21.7, 3.114.6; more freq., to be praetor, Plu.Ant.6;

στρατηγῶν καὶ ὑπατεύων Id.Cat.Ma.4

, cf. Arr.Epict.4.1.149.

b c. gen., to be general of an army, τῶν Λυδῶν, Ἐρετριέων, etc., Hdt.1.34, 5.102, etc.; freq. in [dialect] Att., Th.1.29, D.20.82, etc.; also

σ. τῆς Σάμου Plu.Per.26

;

πολέμου D.H.3.22

(v.l. -ον) ; ποῦ σὺ στρατηγεῖς τοῦδε; S.Aj.1100.

c c. dat.,

ἐστρατήγησε Λακεδαιμονίοισι ἐς Θεσσαλίην Hdt.6.72

, cf. A.Eu.25, E.Tr.926, Andr.324, Lys.13.62; but σ. Ξέρξῃ to be general of his army, Paus. 9.1.3.

d folld. by a Prep.,

σ. ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ And.4.13

;

ἐν Τροίᾳ S.El.1

;

ἐς Θεσσαλίην Hdt.

(v. supr. c); σ. ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἀσίας serve as general on the side of Asia, Isoc.4.154.

e c. inf., manoeuvre so as . . ,

μάχην θέσθαι Plu.Pyrrh.21

, cf. Crass.25, etc.

f c. acc. cogn., σ. στρατηγίας And 1.147, Dinsmoor Archons of Athens 7; ναυμαχίαν, πόλεμον, D.13.21, 49.25: with neut. Adj., do a thing as general,

τοῦτο X.An.7.6.40

; πάντα ὑπὲρ Φιλίππου carry on the whole war in Philip's favour, D.3.6; τοιαῦτα ς. manage matters so in his command, Hdt.9.107; εἰ μὲν ἄλλο τι καλῶς ἐστρ. X.HG6.5.51 —[voice] Pass.,

τὰ στρατηγούμενα D.4.25

,47.

g [voice] Pass., to be commanded by a general,

ἡ πόλις . . ὑπὸ ὑμῶν . . στρατηγεῖται Pl.Ion 541c

;

στρατιὰ ὑπό τινων στρατηγουμένη Isoc.4.185

;

δυοῖν . . στρατηγεῖται φυγή E.Heracl.39

; στρατηγηθῆναι serve under a στρατηγός, Arist. Pol.1277b11; to be governed as a province, App.Mith.105.

2 metaph., ἡ τύχη ἐστρ. X.An.2.2.13, cf. 3.2.27;

ἐστρ. ἡ σιωπὴ τὸν ἀγῶνα Plu.2.506e

.

II c. acc. pers., out-general, D.4.41 ([voice] Pass.), Plb.3.71.1, 9.25.6, LXX 2 Ma.14.31 ([voice] Pass.), cf. D.H.5.29 codd.: metaph. of Homer,

δημαγωγῶν καὶ στρατηγῶν τὰ πλήθη Str.1.2.9

; in [voice] Med., of Pythagoras, Socr.Ep.28 (τερατευσαμένῳ Hercher).

2 c. acc. rei, τῷ σχήματι τοῦ προσώπου στρατηγεῖν τὴν τοῦ πλήθους εὐθυμίαν (of a general) Onos.13.3.