toxarch

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?] (see τόξον (tóxon), -arch).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒksɑːk/

Noun

toxarch (plural toxarchs or toxarches)

1. The captain of a group of archers in ancient Greece, particularly the mercenaries at Athens.
   • 1907, Henry Smith Williams, Greece to the Roman conquest, page 280:

     […] that the post of toxarch had to be filled afresh three times in one year. At the opening of the campaign it was held by Clearchus, Attalus being in command of the Agrianians.

   • 1962, Miscellanea classica:

     " […] toxarchs are to collect from the Archers." It makes no distinction between citizen archers and alien archers. Boeckh's idea was that the toxarchs collected only from the alien archers. This may be so, for the demarchs were […]

   • 1998, Nick Sekunda, John Gibson Warry, Alexander the Great: His Armies and Campaigns 334-323 BC, Osprey Publishing:

     […] toxarch Clearchus, who died during the siege of Halicarnassus. He seems to have been replaced by Antiochus, who is mentioned as a toxarch at Issus, although he doubled as strategos of the whole corps after the death of Cleander […]