Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Plemmyrium, Polētae

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Polētae

（πωληταί). A financial board at Athens, composed of ten members chosen yearly from the tribes by lot. Their chief duties were the leasing of the public taxes and the selling of confiscated goods (Aristot. Polit. Ath. 47). See Gilbert, Greek Const. Antiq. pp. 131, 136 (Eng. trans. 1895).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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