The Polemarch

The Thebans, however, hurled their spears from the hill-tops, so that Alypetus, one of the polemarchs, was struck and killed;

But after the death of Phoebidas the Lacedaemonians merely sent over by sea a polemarch and one regiment, and thus kept Thespiae garrisoned.

And it really seemed that Agesilaus’ expedient proved a clever one, for though he led his army directly away from the enemy, he caused the latter to retire on the run, and while the enemy ran past, some of his polemarchs with their regiments nevertheless succeeded in charging upon them.

and all the other matters that the archon handles for the citizens, the polemarch handles for the metics.

Suits are brought before him, the private ones that arise concerning metics and the privileged aliens and the proxenoi;

The polemarch sacrifices to Artemis Agrotera and to Enyalius, and administers the funeral contest, and makes offerings to those who have died in war and to Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

But the crowning impudence of all was this—that when Menexenus compelled Pasion to give security for the slave before the Polemarch, he gave bond for him in the sum of seven talents.

And while he was making this plea and protesting and weeping, he dragged me before the Polemarch with a demand for bondsmen, and he did not release me until I had furnished bondsmen in the sum of six talents.