Gr. Antiq. Also in quasi-Latin form ǁ lochagus. [ad. Gr. λοχᾱγός (λοχηγός), f. λόχος LOCHUS + ἀγ-, ἠγ-, ἄγ-ειν to lead.] The commander of a lochus.
1808. Mitford, Hist. Greece, III. 149. Xenophon … called together the lochages of the troops which had served under Proxenus.
1832. Lochagus [see LOCHUS].
1849. Grote, Greece, V. II. xlii. 254. Amompharetus the lochage. Ibid. (1850), VII. II. lvi. 112. Lach lochagus had the power of dividing his lochus into more or fewer enomoties as he chose.
