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Sitophylăces

σιτοφύλακες). At Athens, a board originally consisting of ten members, five in the city itself and five in the Piraeus, which superintended the trade in grain (σῖτος), and prevented prices becoming exorbitant. See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 51, and the article Commerce, p. 395.

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    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 51
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