(), that is, the leader or ruler, is the name of
one of the Athenian Charites. When the Athenian ephebi took their civic oath, they invoked
Hegemone. (Pollux, 8.106; Paus. 9.35.1.) Hegemone occurs also as
a surname of Artemis at Sparta, and in Arcadia. (Paus. 3.14.6,
8.36.7, 47.4; Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 227; Polyaen. 8.52.)