promachos (English, noun)
expansion: promachos (plural promachoi)
Senses:
glosses: A deity who fights in front of, or champions, some person or state.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In Ancient Greece and during the Byzantine era, a soldier who fought in the first rank of the phalanx. An obsolete English literal translation of such a promachos is a 'forefighter'.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: promachoi
tags: plural