Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σιτοφύλακες

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Principal Part: σιτοφύλακες

Sense

  1. corn-inspectors, who registered imports of corn

Examples

  • ἦσαν δὲ καὶ σιτοφύλακεσ κληρωτοὶ <ι>, πέντε μὲν εἰσ Πειραιέα, πέντε δ’ εἰσ ἄστυ, νῦν δ’ εἴκοσι μὲν εἰσ ἄστυ, πεντεκαίδεκα δ’ εἰσ Πειραιέα. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 51 3:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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