ταξιάρχων (taxiarchon)

ταξιάρχων is an Ancient Greek form of ταξίαρχος, meaning “commander of a battalion”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ταξιάρχης, “taxiarch, commander of a regiment”. It is the genitive plural noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of ταξιαρχέω, “to be a taxiarch, command the contingent”.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92.4: … πραγμάτων· οἱ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Πειραιεῖ τὸ τῆς Ἠετιωνείας τεῖχος ὁπλῖται οἰκοδομοῦντες, ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ Ἀριστοκράτης ἦν ταξιαρχῶν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ φυλὴν ἔχων, ξυλλαμβάνουσιν Ἀλεξικλέα στρατηγὸν ὄντα ἐκ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας καὶ μάλιστα πρὸς τοὺς ἑτ …

Plutarch, Caesar 29.5: … ῷ δοκεῖν Καίσαρα, καταψηφιζόμενος ὧν ἐκεῖνος οὐδὲν ἐφρόντιζεν· ἀλλὰ καὶ λέγεταί τινα τῶν ἀφιγμένων παρʼ αὐτὸν ταξιάρχων ἑστῶτα πρὸ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου καὶ πυθόμενον ὡς οὐ δίδωσιν ἡ γερουσία Καίσαρι χρόνον τῆς ἀρχῆς, ἀλλʼ αὕτη φάναι …

All forms of ταξίαρχος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.