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Zetētae

ζητηταί). Officials at Athens appointed on special occasions:


1.

as investigators of crimes, to discover the authors and to bring them to punishment; and


2.

to discover property confiscated to the State, and to receive information against persons who concealed property to which the State had a claim. See Schöll, Quaestiones Fiscales Iuris Attici, etc. (Berlin, 1893).

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