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).