Gr. Hist. Pl. -gi. Also with Gr. ending strategos, 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. § 1. 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. Gwatkin, Early Ch. Hist., I. vi. 92. Even Constantine was a strategos of Athens in the direct succession of Themistocles and Phocion.
