单词 | politarch |
释义 | politarchn. Ancient History. A civic magistrate or governor in some cities of the eastern part of the Roman Empire, such as Thessalonica. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [noun] > in ancient Greece polemarch1579 telearch1690 Demiurge1840 politarch1852 1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. ix. 358 At Thessalonica, we find an assembly of people..and supreme magistrates, who are called politarchs. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxvi. 513 They seized Jason and one or two others..and dragged them before the Politarchs. 1884 United Presb. Mag. Apr. 178/1 The seven politarchs who ruled the city when the arch was built. 1914 A. H. Strong Pop. Lects. Bk. New Test. 262 It [sc. Thessalonica] was governed by a Roman prefect, although under him the old laws were respected, and according to those old laws there were seven politarchs, so called, or magistrates, elected by the people. 1997 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 87 210 A fragmentary text from Anthemous in Chalcidike records the award of a gilded imago clipeata in honour of an unknown politarch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852 |
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