A.secretary, registrar, title of officials at Athens and elsewhere, IG12.15, etc.; “ὁ γ. ὁ τῆς πόλεως” Th.7.10; “γ. τοῦ δήμου” OGI493.10 (Ephesus, ii A. D.), Act.Ap.19.35; “γ. ἀνδραπόδων” PHib.29.7; “γ. τῶν μαχίμων” UPZ110.145 (ii B. C.); “γ. τοῦ θεοῦ” IG9(2).1109.21 (Magn. Thess.); also of subordinate officials, clerk, sts. a term of contempt, “ὄλεθρος γ.” D.18.127; “θεοῖς ἐχθρὸς καὶ γ.” Id.19.95; ἡ γ., in joke, Ar. Th.432.
2. metaph., recorder, of memory, Pl.Phlb.39a.
4. one who traces or marks out, of Egyptian embalmers, D.S.1.91.