Anc. Gr. Hist. [ad. Gr. ταξίαρχ-ος, f. τάξι-ς, TAXIS + ἀρχός, f. ἄρχειν to rule.] The commander of a taxis: see TAXIS 3.
1808. Mitford, Hist. Greece, I. V. iv. 287. The rank of the [Athenian] Taxiarch … was nearly that of our colonel.
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristophanes, II. 269. A taxiarch or general, to receive some share of honour.
1846. Grote, Greece, II. viii. II. 607. The tribe appears to have been the only military classification known to Athens, and the taxiarch the only tribe-officer for infantry, as the phylarch was for cavalry, under the general-in-chief.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 83. The generals thus elected shall propose the taxiarchs or brigadiers.
