The corpus record

ναύαρχ-ος

nauarchos · ὁ

commander of a fleet, admiral

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Where it lives

Hellenica 22 · 3.35/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Anabasis 6 · 1.07/10k
History 13 · 0.87/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

commander of a fleet, admiral, the Spartan admiral-in-chief

commander of a fleet, admiral, A. Pers. 363, Hdt. 7.59, 8.42, Eub. 67.11, IG 12(3).103.12 (pl., Nisyros); οὔτε στρατηγοὺς οὔτε ν. S. Aj. 1232; esp. the Spartan admiral-in-chief, Th. 4.11, 8.6, 20, 23, X. An. 1.4.2, etc.; used of an inferior naval officer, Decr. ap. D. 18.73; nauarchorum coetus circiter provincias Orientis, Cod.Just. 11.2.4.

as Adj., ἐπὶ ναυάρχῳ σώματι . . τῷ βασιλείῳ A. Ch. 723 (anap.).

In the wild

ναυάρχῳ · nauarchōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 722–725
ναυάρχοις · nauarchois Aeschylus, Persians 361–368
ναυάρχους · nauarchous Aristotle, Politics 1271a (DIORISIS sentence 736)
ναύαρχος · nauarchos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.4 (DIORISIS sentence 7852)
ναύαρχοι · nauarchoi Herodotus, Histories 7.100.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7635)
ναύαρχοι · nauarchoi Herodotus, Histories 7.59.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7446)

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