A.“ἐπεστάτηκα” Michel164.10 (Delos):—to be an ἐπιστάτης, to be set over, “ποιμνίοις” S.OT1028, E.Fr.188.4; ἡ ψυχὴ ἐ. τῷ “σώματι” Pl.Grg.465d; “ἐπιστήμη ἐ. τῇ πράξει” Id.R.443e; τῷ τοῦ νομοθέτου “ἔργῳ” Id.Cra.390c, cf. 405d (but τέχνῃ according to art, Id.Plt. 293b): abs., Durrbach Choix d'inscrr. de Délos159, PCair.Zen.34.7; “εἰ μὴ ἐπιστατοῖ τὸ τάττον” Plot.4.4.16.
2.. c. gen., to be in charge of, have the care of, “τοῦ ἔργου” Hdt.7.22; “ἔργων” X.Mem.2.8.3; “ζῴων” Id.Cyr.1.1.2; τοῦ εἶναι οἵους δεῖ ib.8.1.16; “τῆς παιδείας” Pl.R.600d; οὐκ “ὀρθῶς ἂν ἔχοι τὸν χείρω τῶν βελτιόνων ἐπιστατεῖν” Id.Prt.338b; ὅλων “τῶν πραγμάτων” Isoc.4.104; τῶν λαῶν σκληρῶς ἐ. Mnaseas 32; ἐ. “νοσεόντων” Hp.Praec.6.
5.. stand in the rear rank, Ascl.Tact.10.15.
6.. notice, observe, Sch.Pi. O.3.81.
II.. at Athens and elsewhere, to be ἐπιστάτης or president (in the βουλή and ἐκκλησία), freq. at the head of decrees, ἔδοξεν τῷ “δήμῳ: . . Νικιάδης ἐπεστάτει” Th.4.118, cf. Ar.Th.374, Lexap.And.1.96, IG12.10, al., Arist.Ath.44.3; in other cities, SIG279.1 (Zelea, iv B.C.), OGI219.1 (Ilium, iii B.C.), etc.; “προέδρων” Inscr.Magn.2, al.: generally, preside over, “δικαστηρίων” OGI556.13 (Tlos).