enomotarch

plural enomotarchs

1. historicalAncient GreeceThe commander of an enomoty.

   sixteen Enomotarchs : the number of soldiers he leaves unmentioned

   1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece

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   A particular kind of this manœuvre was called the Laconian; it began from the enomotarchs, who faced about to the right, and passed in an oblique direction between their own and the next file; the whole file, following their leader, placed itself in front of the uragus, who merely faced to the right about.

   1839, The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, page 261

   The first man in each enomoty (beginning at the right of the front line) was the enomotarch, and the last man in each enomoty was the uragus (οὐραγός).

   1883, Xenophon's Anabasis, page 334