ἄγημα

English (LSJ)

τό, (from ἄγω, or perh. Dor. for ἥγημα; Boeot. ἄγειμα, BCH18.534 (Thisbe))

   A anything led, division, corps of an army, of the Lacedaemonians, X.Lac.11.9, 13.6: in the Macedonian army, the Guard, Plb.5.65.2, Arr.An.1.1.11; τῶν ἱππέων τὸ ἄ. ib.4.24.1; τῶν πεζῶν τὸ ἄ. 2..3; τῶν ἐλεφάντων Phylarch.1: in the armies of the Ptolemies, etc., PPetr.3p.22 (iii B. C.), Plu.Eum.7, App.Syr.32, cf. Ael.Dion.Fr.8; Βασιλικὸν ἄ. Plb.5.82.4.    II name of a district in the Heracleopolite nome, PHib.101.3, PTeb.3.38.4.