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ἐπιμελ-ητής , οῦ, ὁ,
A.one who has charge of a thing, manager, curator, τῶν τῆς πόλεως “πραγμάτων” Ar.Pl.907; “ὄνων καὶ ἵππων” Pl.Grg.516a; τῶν εἰς τὴν δίαιταν “ἐπιτηδείων” X.Cyr.8.1.9; also ὁ περὶ τῆς παιδείας ἐ. Pl.Lg.951e: abs., φύλαξ καὶ ἐ. X.Mem.2.7.14; of a bailiff, Theoc.10.54; of a governor, X.HG3.2.11; “τῆς Τριφυλίας” Plb.4.80.15, cf. Plu.Alex.35; “Δήλου” SIG2 508 (Delos, ii B.C.), etc.; in Salamis, IG22.1008.77, etc.
2.. military commander, “τῆς οὐραγίας” Plb.3.79.4.
II.. as an official title, curator,
1.. of sacred matters, Lys.7.29; “τῶν περὶ τὰ ἱερά” Arist.Pol. 1322b19; “μυστηρίων” D.21.171, IG22.1672.246, etc.; of the Dionysia, D.21.15; [τῆς πομπῆς] Arist.Ath.56.4, IG22.668; of the shrine of Amphiaraus at Oropus, ib.7.4255.32.
2.. financial officers at Athens, ib.12.65.46; of the Eleven, “ἐ. τῶν κακούργων” Antipho 5.17.
3.. of the chiefs of the φυλαί or Tribes, D.21.13, IG22.1139, etc.; “ἐ. τῆς συμμορίας” D.47.22.
4.. “τῶν νεωρίων” Id.22.63, IG22.1629.179; ἐ. ἐμπορίου clerk of the market, Din.2.10; ἐ. ἐπὶ τὸν λιμένα harbour-master, IG22.1012.19; inspector of weights and measures, ib.22.1013.47; curator of the gymnasia, ib.22.1077.12; of the πρυτανεῖον, ib.3.90; “κρηνῶν” Arist.Pol.1321b26, Ath.43.1; ἐ. ὁδοῦ Ἀππίας, = Lat. curator viae Appiae, CIG4029 (Ancyra, ii A.D.); πυλῶν τε καὶ “τειχῶν φυλακῆς” Arist.Pol.1322a36, cf.SIG707.18 (ii B.C.); “τῶν ξένων” IG12(1).49.50 (Rhodes, ii B.C.).
5.. title of a magistrate at Epidaurus, Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1918.117 (ii B.C.), cf. IG4.490 (Cleonae), 4.840, 841 (Calauria), 4.2 (Aegina).
6.. financial officer in Egypt, Arch.Pap. 2.83 (iii B.C.), PAmh.2.33.7 (ii B.C.), etc.
7.. deputy of an Emperor holding honorary local office, SIG872 (Eleusis, ii A.D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 17
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 907
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 43.1
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 56.4
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 13
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 171
    • Demosthenes, Against Androtion, 63
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    • Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, 22
    • Lysias, On the Olive Stump, 29
    • Plato, Laws, 951e
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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.1.9
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.2.11
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.7.14
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.79.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.80.15
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 35
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