The corpus record

καθηγεμ-ών

kathegemon · ὁ

leader, guide

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

καθηγεμ-ών · kathēgem-ōn — LSJ

leader, guide, pilot, in, to

leader, guide, τῆς ὁδοῦ Hdt. 7.128, cf. Plb. 3.48.11; pilot, Id. 4.40.8; of a statesman, Ἀράτῳ καθηγεμόνι χρησάμενος περὶ τῶν ὅλων Id. 7.14.4; of the founders of the Epicurean school, Phld. Rh. 1.49S., Ir. p.89 W., al.; of Crates, Jul. Or. 6.202d; κ. τῆς ἀρετῆς in or to virtue, Plu. Dio 1; as a title of gods, Διόνυσος κ. CIG 3068 (Teos); τᾷ εὐεργέτιδι καὶ καθαγεμόνι τᾶς πόλιος SIG 559.36 (Arc., from Magn. Mae., iii B.C.); Ἀφροδίτην κ. ποιεῖσθαι Plu. Thes. 18; of divinities, τῷ Διί, καθηγεμόνι το

In the wild

καθηγεμόνι · kathēgemoni Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6054)
κατηγεμόνα · katēgemona Herodotus, Histories 6.135.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6980)
κατηγεμόνας · katēgemonas Herodotus, Histories 7.128.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7769)
κατηγεμόνες · katēgemones Herodotus, Histories 7.197.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8206)
καθηγεμόνα · kathēgemona Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 10

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