πολιτάρχης, πολιταρχου, ὁ (i. e. ὁ ἄρχων τῶν πολιτῶν; see ἑκατοντάρχης), a ruler of a city or citizens: Act_17:6; Act_17:8. (Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions Graec. ii., p. 52f no. 1967 (cf. Boeckh's note, and Tdf. Proleg., p. 86 note 2); in Greek writings πολίαρχος was more common.)

πολιτάρχης politarchēs 2x a ruler or prefect of a city, city magistrate, Act_17:6 ; Act_17:8

*† πολιτάρχης , -ου , ὁ , = πολίαρχος ( Pind ., Eur .), the ruler of a city, a politarch: Act_17:6 ; Act_17:8 ( v. MM , xx).†

πολιτάρχης [page 525] This title is known from inscrr., as well as from Act_17:6 ; Act_17:8 , to have been in use at Thessalonica and elsewhere : see E. De Witt Burton s art. in the AJT ii. (1898), p. 598 ff. (summarized in Hastings DB iv. p. 315), where he prints seventeen inscrr., with two more in which the title (πολιτάρχης ) or the verb (πολιταρχέω ) is plausibly restored, showing that in Thessalonica there were 5 politarchs in the time of Augustus, and 6 in the time of Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius. Of the inscrr. 14 belong to Macedonia (5 of them to Thessalonica), 2 to Philippopolis in Thrace, and one each to Bithynia, Bosporus, and Egypt. To these we can now add a papyrus letter from Egypt, P Oxy IV. 745 .4 ( c. A.D. 1), where the writer claims that his correspondent had made some promise through the politarch Theophilus ὡς καὶ ὑπέσχου διὰ τοῦ πολειτάρχου Θεοφίλου . It is clear from Burton s citations that the title was essentially Macedonian. It would be brought into Egypt naturally by some early Ptolemy, but it is odd that it should be there at all and appear so seldom. The verb occurs in an inscr. from Cairo of iii/iv A.D., Kaibel 430 .7 δισσῶν γάρ τε τόπων πολιταρχῶν αὐτὸς ἐτείμω .

πολιτάρχης πολιτ-άρχης, ου, ὁ, "a civic magistrate", at Thessalonica, NTest.

πολιτάρχης, -ου, ὁ = πολίαρχος (Pind., Eur.), the ruler of a city, a politarch: Act.17:6, 8 (see MM, xx).† (AS)