A.memoir-writers or historians (incl. τὰ τῶν Γαλιλαίων . . βιβλία), opp. φιλόσοφοι, Jul.Ep. 106; “παρὰ Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ πάντων ἔργων -γράφου” Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.44.
2. recorder, name of a great official in the Egyptian king's household, and the corresponding official in the office of the minister of finance (διοικητής), and prob. in those of other high officials, PMich.Zen.55.24 (iii B. C.), OGI147 (Paphos), al., UPZ14.127 (ii B. C.), Wilcken Chr.11 B1 (ii B. C.), Sammelb.6155.24, 7259.37 (both i B. C.), Str.17.1.12 (hence of David and Hezekiah, LXX 1 Ch. 18.15, Is.36.3); also of a lesser local official, PTeb.58.33, 112.87 (both ii B. C.), Sammelb.7434.9 (ii A. D.), etc.