Definition of "gymnasiarch" [gym•na•si•arch]

• An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia and paid for the oil and other necessities. (noun)

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• "If e is to stand, transl. “than they get whilst supplied by the gymnasiarch in the torch race,” or"
• "At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state."
• "Out in the sand, near the statue of Hermes (the patron god of gymnasia) is a dignified and self-conscious looking man in a purple edged chiton -- the gymnasiarch, the official manager of the Academy."