Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Ageorgiou Diké, Agoranŏmi

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Agoranŏmi

（ἀγορανόμοι). Market-masters. In many Greek towns magistrates somewhat resembling the Roman aediles (q.v.). At Athens ten agoranomi were chosen by lot every year, five for the city, and five for the port of Piraeus. They looked especially after the retail trade, gave strangers leave to engage in it, tested weights and measures as well as the quality of goods, confiscating and destroying what was spoiled; they settled disputes between buyers and sellers on the spot, or, if a suit at law was necessary, presided over it. See Boeckh, Public Econ. of Athens, pp. 48, 333.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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