It devolves, finally, on the polemarch to see that all goes well.
At length, after much loss in killed and wounded, and great distress to all, the polemarch contrived to get his detachment as far as an eminence about a quarter of a mile from the sea and about two miles from Lechæum.
Upon this the polemarch ordered a halt, directed the youngest soldiers to drive off the assailants, and confided the wounded to the care of attendants to be carried forward to Lechæum.
The polemarch decided,(1581) and the victor was rewarded with a chosen piece of meat.
If this be true, it follows that the office of polemarch must have lost its military importance, which was not the case, inasmuch as the polemarch at Marathon gave the casting vote in favour of immediate battle.
The change was clearly effected by the devolution of the military and civil powers of the king to the polemarch and the archon, while the archon basileus (or king) retained control of state religion.
Its administrative powers, save those wielded by thepolemarch (see below and cf.
Thus speaking Miltiades gained Callimachos to his side; and the opinion of the polemarch being added, it was thus determined to fight a battle.
Part 58 The Polemarch performs the sacrifices to Artemis the huntress and to Enyalius, and arranges the contest at the funeral of those who have fallen in war, and makes offerings to the memory of Harmodius and Aristogeiton.
Next they began to elect the generals by tribes, one from each tribe, while the Polemarch was the commander of the whole army.
Part 56 The Archon, the King, and the Polemarch have each two assessors, nominated by themselves.
They were from the same borough (aphidnae) as the polemarch himself.
Despite, however, the military renown of the one, and the civil eminence of the other, the opposite and more tame opinion seemed likely to prevail, when Miltiades suddenly thus addressed the Polemarch Callimachus.
The polemarch was the third in rank of the Archons, and was at the head of the military administration.
Gylis the polemarch meanwhile withdrew into Phocis at the head of his troops, and from that district made a hostile advance into Locris.
For myself, and acting in obedience to the law, which empowers the polemarch to apprehend all persons suspected of capital crimes, I hereby seize the person of Ismenias as an arch-fomenter of war.
Then the polemarch entered, but owing to the wide space between the double walls, as soon as they came to form in line within, the intruders were impressed by the paucity of their numbers.
But with the morning Gylis the polemarch received orders to draw up the troops in battle order, and to set up a trophy, every man crowned with a wreath in honour of the god, and all the pipers piping.
After the death of Phoebidas the Lacedaemonians despatched a polemarch with a division by sea to form the garrison of Thespiae.
These attacks told so severely that the polemarch a second time gave the order (and this time for the fifteen-years-service men) to charge.
Then the polemarch ordered the ten-years-service men (19) to charge and drive off their assailants.
Now that the transactions were concluded, another polemarch was chosen in place of Ismenias, and Leontiades at once set out to Lacedaemon.
He was treated with equal friendliness by Antigonus's son Demetrius, who made him polemarch of Thespiae, and by Antigonus Gonatas, at whose court he died at the age of 104.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polemarch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
