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ἐπίτροπ-ος , ον, （ἐπιτρέπω）
A.one to whom the charge of anything is entrusted, steward, trustee, administrator, c.gen. rei, “τῶν ἑωυτοῦ” Hdt.1.108 ; “τῶν οἰκίων” Id.3.63 : abs., X.Oec.12.3, D.21.78, 27.19, Ev.Luc.8.3, etc.; steward, messman, X.Cyr.4.2.35 : metaph., “τῶν [τοῦ Πρωταγόρου] ἐ.” Pl.Tht.165a.
2. = Lat. procurator, “Καίσαρος ἐ.” Str.3.4.20, Plu.2.813e, etc.; ἐ. Σεβαστοῦ, -τῶν, OG1502.10 (Aezani, ii A.D.), 501.2 (Tralles, ii A.D.); “ἐ. τῆς Ἠπείρου” Arr.Epict.3.4.1 ; “τῶν μετάλλων” OG1678.5 (Egypt, ii A.D.), etc.
3. governor, viceroy, οἱ ἐ. τῆς Μέμφιος, Μιλήτου ἐ., Hdt.3.27,5.30, cf. 106.
4. executor, PPetr.3p.9, al.(iii B.C.).
II. c.gen.pers., trustee, guardian, Hdt.4.76, Th.2.80, etc.; “ἐ. τινι παίδων” Hyp.Epit.42 : abs., Pl.Lg.924b, etc.; “ὑπὸ ἐπιτρόπους εἶναι” Ep.Gal.4.2 ; “καθιστάναι ἐ.” PRyl.153.18(ii A.D.): metaph., guardian, protector, “θεὸς ἐ. ἐών” Pi.O.1.106.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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