Λόχαγος (Lochagos)

Λόχαγος means “Lochagos — leader of an armed band; commander of a company; captain”.

Ancient Greek word, found 2 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 52.1: Λόχαγος ὁ Πολυαινίδου καὶ Σείρωνος πατήρ, ἀπαγγείλαντός τινος αὐτῷ ὅτι τῶν υἱῶν τεθνήκοι ὁ ἕτερος, πάλαι ᾔδειν ἔφη ὅτι ἀποθανεῖν αὐτὸν ἔδει.

Polybius, Histories 27.15.14: ὡς δὲ τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ἱππόλοχον καὶ Νίκανδρον καὶ Λόχαγον εἶδον τοὺς Αἰτωλοὺς ἀναγομένους εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην ἀπὸ τῆς ἱππομαχίας ἀλόγως, καὶ τὰς διαβολὰς τὰς ἐκ τῶν περὶ Λυκ …

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.