ἐπιμελητής

ἐπιμελητής, οῦ, ὁ, A. one who has charge of a thing, manager, curator, τῶν τῆς πόλεως πραγμάτων Ar. Pl. 907; ὄνων καὶ ἵππων Pl. Grg. 516a; τῶν εἰς τὴν δίαιταν ἐπιτηδείων X. Cyr. 8.1.9; also ὁ περὶ τῆς παιδείας ἐ. Pl. Lg. 951e: abs., φύλαξ καὶ ἐ. X. Mem. 2.7.14; of a bailiff, Theoc. 10.54; of a governor, X. HG 3.2.11; τῆς Τριφυλίας Plb. 4.80.15, cf. Plu. Alex. 35; Δήλου SIG 2 508 (Delos, ii B.C.), etc.; in Salamis, IG 22.1008.77, etc. 2. military commander, τῆς οὐραγίας Plb. 3.79.4. II. as an official title, curator, 1. of sacred matters, Lys. 7.29; τῶν περὶ τὰ ἱερά Arist. Pol. 1322b19; μυστηρίων D. 21.171, IG 22.1672.246, etc.; of the Dionysia, D. 21.15; [τῆς πομπῆς] Arist. Ath. 56.4, IG 22.668; of the shrine of Amphiaraus at Oropus, ib.7.4255.32. 2. financial officers at Athens, ib.12.65.46; of the Eleven, ἐ. τῶν κακούργων Antipho 5.17. 3. of the chiefs of the φυλαί or Tribes, D. 21.13, IG 22.1139, etc.; ἐ. τῆς συμμορίας D. 47.22. 4. τῶν νεωρίων Id. 22.63, IG 22.1629.179; ἐ. ἐμπορίου clerk of the market, Din. 2.10; ἐ. ἐπὶ τὸν λιμένα harbour-master, IG 22.1012.19; inspector of weights and measures, ib.22.1013.47; curator of the gymnasia, ib.22.1077.12; of the πρυτανεῖον, ib.3.90; κρηνῶν Arist. Pol. 1321b26, Ath. 43.1; ἐ. ὁδοῦ Ἀππίας, = Lat. curator viae Appiae, CIG 4029 (Ancyra, ii A.D.); πυλῶν τε καὶ τειχῶν φυλακῆς Arist. Pol. 1322a36, cf.SIG 707.18 (ii B.C.); τῶν ξένων IG 12(1).49.50 (Rhodes, ii B.C.). 5. title of a magistrate at Epidaurus, Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1918.117 (ii B.C.), cf. IG 4.490 (Cleonae), 4.840, 841 (Calauria), 4.2 (Aegina). 6. financial officer in Egypt, Arch.Pap. 2.83 (iii B.C.), PAmh. 2.33.7 (ii B.C.), etc. 7. deputy of an Emperor holding honorary local office, SIG 872 (Eleusis, ii A.D.).