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πωλ-ητής , οῦ, ὁ, prop.
A.seller, Plu.Galb.24: but,
2. at Athens and elsewhere, officials who farmed out taxes and other revenues, sold confiscated property, and entered into contracts for public works, IG12.36.7, al., Antipho 6.49, Arist.Ath.7.3, 47.2; also at Rhodes, SIG581.97 (ii B.C.); τοὶ π. μισθωσάντω ἀναγράψαι τὸ ψάφισμα ib.398.49 (Cos, iii B.C.); they also sold up the metics who failed to pay their tax, D.25.58.
3. at Epidamnus, an official who regulated commercial dealings with the neighbouring barbarians, Plu.2.297f.
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 (5):
    • Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 49
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 7.3
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 47.2
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 58
    • Plutarch, Galba, 24
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