The corpus record

τακ-τικός

taktikos

fit for ordering

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Where it lives

Cyropaedia 9 · 1.14/10k
Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fit for ordering, arranging, tactician, a good piece of tactics, regular, the art of tactics

fit for ordering, or arranging, esp. in war, τ. ἀνήρ tactician, X. Cyr. 8.5.15; τακτικὸν ἡγεῖσθαί τι to think it a good piece of tactics, ibid.; οἱ τ. ἀριθμοί the regular battalions, ib. 3.3.11: ἡ τακτική (sc. τέχνη) the art of tactics, Nicom.Com. 1.37; τὰ τ. X. Cyr. 1.6.14, etc.; τ. ὑπόμνημα Aen.Tact. tit. (interpol.); τακτικόν, title of work by Democr. (Fr. 28b). Adv. Comp. -ώτερον v.l. for τατικ- in Sch. E. Ph. 1141.

2 regulating

generally, regulating, δογμάτων M.Ant. 1.9.

II ordinal

ordinal, of numbers, D.T. 636.14.

In the wild

τακτικός · taktikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1472)
τακτικῶν · taktikōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1855)
τακτικὸς · taktikos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3243)
Τακτικὸν · Taktikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.7 (DIORISIS sentence 8080)
τακτικὸν · taktikon Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.9.2 (DIORISIS sentence 38)
τακτικῶν · taktikōn Plato, Laws 813

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