Lochagos
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Lochagos (Greek: Λοχαγός; abbreviated as Λγος) is used in the Greek language to mean "Captain". More precisely, it means "leader of a lochos".
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[edit] Ancient Use
The term has been used since the times of Ancient Greece, where the place of the rank in the military hierarchy differed from city-state to city-state. For example, Xenophon reported that a lochagos of Sparta served under a polemarch. Aristotle reported that his counterpart in Athens served under a taxiarchos. In military manuals, the file is often called a lochos and as such its leader is also called a lochagos.[1][2][3] Thus, the lochagos can also be the promachos protostates.
The rank of lochagos could also represent an officer roughly equivalent to that a Roman army centurion. The term was however also used by later writers to describe the civilian leader of a curia. The rank was still in use in the military of the Byzantine Empire.
[edit] Modern Use
In the modern Hellenic Army the rank is superior to an Ypolochagos (First Lieutenant) and inferior to an Tagmatarchis (Major). The insignia consists of three silver stars.
[edit] Rank insignia
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Rank insignia of a Lochagos, 1908–1936
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Rank insignia of a Lochagos, 1937–1968
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Current rank insignia of a Lochagos, since 1968
[edit] References
- ^ Ael.Tact.5.1
- ^ Arrian, Techne Taktike, 5.6
- ^ Asclepiodotus, Tactica, 1.2
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