in English antiquity, is a sort of shoe, 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. Tune flueus criminum, tune luxus vestiment, tune usus calcorum cum arcuatis aculeis inventus est. Malmsb. 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 solemn sacrifice to Enyalus (said to be the same with Mars, though others will have it that he was only one of his attendants), and another to Diana, surnamed Agrotes, 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.