Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Colacrĕtae

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Colacrĕtae

（Κωλάκρεται). A financial board at Athens, whose duty it was to administer the fund accruing from the fines taken in the courts of justice. It was this fund from which the cost of the public meals in the Prytaneum and the salary of the Heliastae were defrayed. The name properly means “collectors of hams,” and perhaps points to the fact that the hams of the victims sacrificed on certain occasions were given to the Colacretae as contributions to the meals in question.

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

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