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πρόεδρ-ος , ὁ,
A.one who sits in the first place, president, Th.8.67; “ἐν δίκῃ” Pl.Lg.949a, cf. PPetr.3p.44(iii B.C.): metaph., “ὁ τῆς μαντείας π. ἀετός” Arist.HA601b2.
II. at Athens, in pl., presiding officers of the βουλή or ἐκκλησία, Lex ap. D.24.21, Aeschin.2.65, Arist.Ath.44.2; “οἱ λαχόντες π.” IG22.779.11, 1227.23, al.; “τοὺς π. οἳ ἂν λάχωσι προεδρεύειν” SIG158.5 (iv B.C.), etc.; similar officers at Mytilene, Th.3.25; “ὁ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν π.” App.Mac.9.1; “μέλλοντος τοῦ π. τὸν δῆμον ἐπερωτᾶν” Plu.Arist.3, cf. “ἐπιψηφίζω” 1.2; π. Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως city councillors of Hermupolis, BGU1027 i 10(iv 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 65
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 44.2
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 21
    • Plato, Laws, 949a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.25
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.67
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 1.2
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 3
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