in English antiquity, is a sort of hoe, sharp or piked at the point. This fashion took its rise in the time of King William Rufus; and the pikes were so long, that they were tied up to the knees with silver or golden chains. They were forbidden by stat. an. 4 Edw. IV. cap. 7. Tunc fluxus crinum, tunc luxus velutum, tunc ujus coleorum cum arcuatis aculeis inventus est. Malmelb. in Will. ii.

POLEMARCHUS was a magistrate at Athens, who had under his care all the strangers and sojourners in the city, over whom he had the same authority that the archon had over the citizens. It was his duty to offer a Potter's solemn sacrifice to Enyalus (said to be the same with Grecian Mars, though others will have it that he was only one of his attendants), and another to Diana, named Antiquities, in honour of the famous patriot Harmodius. It was also his business to take care that the children of those that had lost their lives in the service of their country should be provided for out of the public treasury.