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προστάτας: these were the ‘consuls’ or trade representatives of the towns; the magistrates of the city were perhaps called τιμοῦχοι (Hermias, F. H. G. ii. 80-1, an interesting passage as to the feast to the Grynean Apollo in the prytaneum at Naucratis). The officers of the towns probably stood to the magistrates as the heads of the trade-guilds to the authorities of a mediaeval town.

ὅσαι δὲ ἄλλαι: religious and trade privileges were closely connected.

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