Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐπιστα?́τ-ης

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2.. one who is set over, chief, commander, A.Th.816 (815); “ὅπλων” Id.Pers.379; ποιμνίων ἐ. S.Aj.27; ἐρετμῶν ἐ. E.Hel. 1267; θύματος ἐ. Id.Hec.223; but ταύρων πυρπνόων ζεύγλῃσι mastering them with . . , Id.Med.478; ἐνόπτρων καὶ μύρων, of the Trojans, Id.Or.1112; ἐ. Κολωνοῦ, of a tutelary god, S.OC889; [καιρὸς] ἀνδράσιν μέγιστος ἔργου παντός ἐστ᾽ ἐ. Id.El.76; also in Prose, ἐ. γενέσθαι τῶν λόγων ἴσους καὶ κοινούς judges, And.4.7; ποίας ἐργασίας ἐ.; Answ. ἐ. τοῦ ποιῆσαι δεινὸν λέγειν (where it = ἐπιστήμων) Pl.Prt.312d; “πραγμάτων” Isoc.4.121; ἐπιστάται ἄθλων stewards of games, Pl.Lg.949a, cf. X.Lac.8.4; of a pilot, Id.Oec.21.3; supervisor of training, Pl. R.412a, X.Mem.3.5.18 (pl.); “ἐ. τῶν παίδων” IG12(1).43 (Rhodes); “τῶν ἐφήβων” Inscr.Prien.112.73 (i B.C.): voc. ἐπιστάτα, = Rabbi, Ev. Luc.5.5, al.

III.. president of a board or assembly: at Athens, ἐ. τῶν πρυτάνεων chairman of βουλή and ἐκκλησία in cent. v, Arist. Ath.44.1, later, keeper of Treasury or Archives, IG3.841, etc.; ἐ. τῶν προέδρων chairman of βουλή and ἐκκλησία from cent.iv, Aeschin. 3.39, D.22.9, etc.; “ἐ. ὁ ἐκ τῶν προέδρων” IG22.204.31 (iv B.C.); in other Greek states, ib.12(1).731 (Rhodes), 12(7).515.116, 125 (Amorgos), etc.; ἐ. τῶν νομοθετῶν ib.22.222; τῶν δικα[στῶν] LW1539 (Erythrae).

2.. overseer, superintendent, in charge of any public building or works, τοῦ νεὼ τοῦ ἐν πόλει, i.e. of the temple of Athena Polias, IG12.372; “ἱεροῦ” UPZ42.22 (ii B.C.); ἐ. τῶν ἔργων clerk of the works, D.18.114, LXXEx.1.11 (pl.); “τῶν δημοσίων ἔργων” Aeschin.3.14; τοῦ ναυτικοῦ ib.222; “τῆς Ἀκαδημείας” Hyp.Dem.Fr.7; “τοῦ Μουσείου” OGI104.4 (ii B.C.); “τῶν κοπρώνων” D.25.49.

3.. governor, administrator, “τῆς πόλεως” OGI254.3 (Babylon, ii B.C.), cf. IG12(3).320.7 (Thera, iii B.C.), OGI479.7 (Dorylaeum, ii A.D.); κώμης local magistrate, Arch.Pap.4.38.

4.. = προστάτης, Lat. patronus, IG14.1317.

IV.. in Ar.Av.437, = χυτρόπους, Ar.Byz. ap. Eust.1827.45; other explanations, ibid., cf.Sch.Ar.l.c.: τοὐπιστάτου is fr. ἐπίστατος, = πυρίστατος, Anon. ap. Eust.1827.56: dub. sens. in BpW1892.514; cf. ἐπίστατον.

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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- Andocides, Against Alcibiades, 7
- Aristophanes, Birds, 437
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 44.1
- Demosthenes, On the Crown, 114
- Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 49
- Demosthenes, Against Androtion, 9
- Euripides, Hecuba, 223
- Euripides, Helen, 1267
- Euripides, Medea, 478
- Euripides, Orestes, 1112
- Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1147
- Homer, Odyssey, 17.455
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 121
- Plato, Laws, 949a
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- Sophocles, Ajax, 27
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- Xenophon, Economics, 21.3
- Polybius, Histories, 1.40.11
- Old Testament, Exodus, 1.11
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