See also:

• NAUARCHIA (Gr. vans, ship, &pxii, command)

NAUARCHIA (Gr. vans, See also:

• SHIP

ship, &pxii, command)  , the supreme command of the Spartan See also:

• NAVY

navy . The See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual one and could not be held more than once by the same See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man (Xen . See also:

• HELL (0. Eng. hel, a Teutonic word from a root meaning " to cover," cf. Ger. Holle, Dutch hel)

Hell. ii. r . 7) . This See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law might be evaded in See also:

• SPECIAL

special cases; the new See also:

• ADMIRAL

admiral might not be sent to take over the command until some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time after his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election, which took See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place at midsummer (Beloch in Philologus, xliii. p . 272 sqq.), and meanwhile his predecessor remained de facto admiral; or the retiring admiral might, after the expiry of his See also:

• TERM

term, hold an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as secretary (HfLO'TO)^EUS) to one who, though titular admiral, was really placed under his orders or even kept at See also:

• SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

Sparta altogether . Being See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent of the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings and hampered by no colleague, the nauarch wielded such See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power that See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle is hardly going too far when he says (Politics, ii . 9 . 22), i1 vavapxia o-xeShv Eripa i3aoLAEia KaOEO•TfKEe . He was subject only to the ephors, who, if he proved incompetent, could depose him (Thuc. viii . 39), though they usually preferred to send out an advisory See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee (c ij3ouXot) . An admiral might appoint his E7rivroXEGs to command a portion, or even the whole, of the See also:

• FLEET

fleet, and if the former died in office the secretary succeeded to his See also:

• POST

post .

For a detailed discussion see J . Beloch, " See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Nauarchie in Sparta," in the Rheinisches Museum, xxxiv . (1879) 117-130, where a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of nauarchs known to us will be found; regarding the time of the election this is corrected by a later See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article of the same writer (Philologus, loc. cit.) . See also A . Solari, Ricerche Spartane (Livorno, 1907), 1-58; G . Busolt, Staats- and Rechtsaltertumer " (Iwan Mailer's Handbuch der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, iv.), § 96; G . E . Underhill's edition of See also:

• XENOPHON

Xenophon, Hellenica, i., ii., See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note on i . 5 . 1 . (M . N .