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πρωτοστάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοστάτης πρωτοστάτου

Structure: πρωτοστατ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: sth=nai

Sense

  1. one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of the line; right-hand man, (in the plural) the front-rank men
  2. the lochagos
  3. man in the uneven rows in a lochos, as opposed to the epistates

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ̓πιν ἑστὼσ ἐπιστάτησ καλεῖται, ὁ δὲ αὖ κατόπιν τούτου πρωτοστάτησ, ὁ δ̓ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐπιστάτησ, καὶ ἐφεξῆσ ὡσαύτωσ, ὡσ τὸν πάντα τοῦ λόχου στίχον ἐκ πρωτοστατῶν καὶ ἐπιστατῶν τετάχθαι παραλλὰξ ἱσταμένων. (Arrian, chapter 6 6:3)
  • πρωτοστατῶν ἐν μέσῳ λοχαγοῦ τε καὶ οὐραγοῦ συντεταγμένοσ. (Arrian, chapter 6 9:1)
  • καὶ τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα ἀπεγίγνοντο, οἱ δώδεκα δὲ προεῖχον πρὸ τῶν σωμάτων ἑκάστου τῶν πρωτοστατῶν. (Arrian, chapter 12 11:1)
  • καθ̓ ἕκαστον οὖν τῶν πρωτοστατῶν ἓξ σάρισαι προβεβλημέναι ἦσαν, ἐν κύκλῳ ἐφεξῆσ ὑποβαίνουσαι, ὥστε ἕκαστον ὁπλίτην ἓξ σαρίσαισ πεφράχθαι καὶ ταῖσ δυνάμεσιν ἐπερείδειν ὅποι ἐπιβρίσειαν. (Arrian, chapter 12 15:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ διανοηθεὶσ ἀνεχώρησε μετὰ τῶν πρωτοστατῶν, δοὺσ τοῖσ μὲν πολεμίοισ ἄσημον ἔκκλιμα, τοῖσ δ’ ἰδίοισ δηλώσασ τὸν Ἄννωνοσ θάνατον καὶ παρακελευόμενοσ ἀναχωρεῖν ἐν τάξει πρὸσ τὸν γεώλοφον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 12 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands first

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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