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ἀρχι-τέκτων , ονος, ὁ,
A.chief-artificer, master-builder, director of works, τοῦ ὀρύγματος, τῆς γεφύρας, Hdt.3.60, 4.87; opp. χειροτέχνης, Arist.Metaph.981a30; opp. ἐργατικός, Pl.Plt.259e; commissioner of works, IG2.403, al., ib.9(1).694.145 (Corcyra), SIG284.12 (Chios, from Erythrae), etc.; ἀ. τοῦ ναοῦ ib.494.3 (Delph.); “ἀ. ἐπὶ τὰ ἱερά” IG2.404.
b. pl., board of naval constructors, Arist.Ath.46.1.
2. generally, author, contriver, E.Cyc.477; “ἀ. κύριος τῆς ἡδονῆς” Alex. 149.2; “ἀ. τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς” D.56.11; “τοῦ τέλους” Arist.EN1152b2; τοὺς ταῖς διανοίαις ἀ. τινός those that direct activities by thought, Id.Pol.1325b23.
II. at Athens, manager of the state theatre and of the Dionysia, D.18.28, IG2.335.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 46.1
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 28
    • Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus, 11
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 477
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.87
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.60
    • Plato, Statesman, 259e
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