STRONGS G4759:
στρατοπεδάρχης,
στρατοπεδαρχου,
ὁ (
στρατόπεδον and
ἄρχω) (cf.
Buttmann, 73 (64));
a. the commander of a camp and army, a military tribune:
Dionysius Halicarnassus 10, 36;
Lucian, hist. conscr. 22; (
Josephus,
b. j. 2, 19, 4).
b. Praetorian prefect, commander of the praetorian cohorts, i. e. captain of the Roman emperor's bodyguard:
Acts 28:16 (
L T Tr WH omit the clause, see Abbot in
B. D., American edition, under the word, Captain of the Guard). There were two praetorian prefects, to whose custody prisoners sent bound to the emperor were consigned:
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 6;
Pliny, epistles 10, 65 (57). (See
B. D. American edition as above;
Lightfoot on Philippi, p. 7f.)
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