tactician

tactician
subs.
Use adj., P. τακτικός (Xen.).

tactician: a t., rei militaris peritus, Cic. Fam. 9, 25, init.: a consummate t successful rather in battles than in campaigns, unicus bellandi artifex, magisque in praelio quam in bello bonus (said of Pyrrhus), Liv. Fragm. in Fulda MS. of Servius. Aen. 1: Veget. Milit. 3, praef. says "magistri armorum, quos tacticos appellaverunt:" (sc. the Greeks).