ἡγεμονία
Alt. ἡγεμονία, ἡ,
Etym. ἡγεμών
I. "a leading the way, going first", Hdt.
II. "chief command", id=Hdt., Thuc., etc.; ἡγ. δικαστηρίων "authority" over them, Aeschin.
2. "the hegemony or sovereignty of one state over a number of subordinates", as of Athens in Attica, Thebes in Boeotia:— "the hegemony" of Greece was wrested from Sparta by Athens; and the Peloponn. war was a struggle for this "hegemony."
b. = Roman "imperium", Plut.: "the reign of the Emperor", NTest.
III. "a division of the army, a command", Plut.