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ἐπόπτ-ης , ου, ὁ, (ἐπόψομαι)
A.overseer, watcher, esp. of a god, “Πυθῶνος” Pi.N.9.5, cf. Epich.266 ; “ὁ πάντων ἐ. θεός” LXX Es.5.1 ; title of Poseidon, Paus.8.30.1 ; of the Sun, OGI666.25 (Egypt, i A. D.); “δαίμονες ἐ. τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων” Ti.Locr. 105a ; “ὥσπερ ἐπόπτας τῶν στρατηγουμένων” D.4.25 ; ἐ. γῆς καὶ θαλάσσης, of Pompey, JHS27.64 (Cyzicus); of Augustus, IGRom.4.309 (Pergam.); ἐ. εἰρήνης, of a police magistrate, POxy.991 (iv A.D.).
2. simply, spectator, “πόνων” A.Pr.301.
3. inspector, Cod.Just.10.16.13 Intr.
II. one admitted to the highest grade of the mysteries, IG12.6.51, Plu.Alc.22, etc., cf. “ἐφόπται” IG12(8).205.3 (Samothrace) : c. gen., “μυστηρίων ἐ.” Michel1141 (ibid.) ; τινος PMag.Lond.121.572 : metaph., “ἐ. τῆς ἐκείνου μεγαλειότητος” 2 Ep.Pet.1.16.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 301
    • Demosthenes, Philippic 1, 25
    • New Testament, 2 Peter, 1.16
    • Old Testament, Esther, 5.1
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.30.1
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 22
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