A.ordinance, command, Pl.R.423c, al., Isoc.4.176, etc.; “ἐκ προστάγματος” D.17. 16; “κατὰ πρόσταγμα” D.S.14.41, cf. OGI225.37 (Didyma, iii B.C.), PEnteux.6.11, al. (iii B.C.), PTeb.5.206 (ii B.C., pl.), UPZ112 i 7 (ii B.C., pl.), etc.; κατὰ τὸ π. τοῦ παιδαγωγοῦ ζῆν by his prescription, Arist.EN1119b13, cf. PCair.Zen.426.7 (iii B.C.), Ael.VH9.23; = Lat. edictum, OGI665.3 (Egypt, i A.D.), etc.
2. order to pay or deliver, PCair.Zen.8.3, 375.8 (iii B.C.).
II. military command, as division of the army, “ὑπηρέτης προστάγματος” PRein.15.30 (ii B.C.), unless an error for τάγματος.