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OF THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS.
meal shotild not be sold at too dear a price, and to appoint the size of
bread. Nearly related to these were the lirofi&gai, or AnrofcxrxToi,
whose office was to see that the measures of corn were just and equal.
Ayo£«vofii.ei, sometimes termed A^yts-a) (I) were ten in number, five be-
longing to the city, and as many to -the Piraeus. Others make them fif-
teen ; ten whereof they gave to the city, and five to the Piraeus, which
was reckoned a third part of Athens. To these men a certain toll or
tribute was paid by all those who brought any thing to sell in the mar-
ket : whence Dicseopolis is introduced by Aristophanes (2), demanding
an eel of a Boeotian for the TjXos tj$s uyogctg, toll of the market:
This thou shalt give me for toll of the market ; for their busines lay in the
market, where they had the care of all vendibles, except corn ; and were
especially obliged to see that no man wronged, or any way circumvented
another in buying or selling (3)
M£t£o»o><>/, were officers that inspected all sorts of measures, except
those of corn : there were five of them in the city, and double that num-
ber in Piraeus, in which the greatest martin Attica was kept.
0^«>s'/x«<, were officers who took care of the fish-market. They were two
or three in number, and chosen by the senate (4). Their name is derived
from otyoi, which, though originally of a more general signification, is
many times appropriated to fish. Thus, Plutarch (5) has informed us :
TloXkuoi avTtvv oTpav, exvtvtxyxsv o <%0l>s ^iov ij ye, oipov xaXtTdar Ma-
rty other things being called o-^/x, that name is nevertheless now applied
only, or chiefly, to fish i whence oTpdgiov is used in that sense by SL
John (6).
Ejxtfo^'if fiftfish'/jrai, were officers that belonged to the haven ; they
were ten in number, and the chief part of their business was to take care
that two parts, at least, of all the corn which was brought into the port,
should be carried into the city, and that no silver should be exported by
any private person, except such as designed to trade in corn (7).
N<*uTo5i'xai, or 'fS^rooixui, had cognizance of controversies that hap-
pened between merchants and mariners, and examined persons, that be-
jng the children of strangers both by the father and mother's side, had by-
fraud inserted their names into the public register, thereby claiming the
privileges of free-born citizens ; this they did upon the 26th of every
month. Not much different from these were the JZirayaysls, according
to Sigonius and Emmi-us's account of them ; only they were to bear such
causes in matters of trade, as required dispatch, and could not be defer-
red to the monthly sessions of the Nat*Te5»'x«*. But Pollux tells us, that
besides those trials, they had cognizance of controversies about feasts and
public entertainments.
Afvpujot, were officers who took care of the streets, and several other
things, especially such as any way concerned the streets, wepiVsTwv ai\7i-
vptSujy, g xo<xpoXiyuv, 5 <rav ro«JT«v, of the minstrels, and singers, and scaven-
gers, and such like. Aristotle, as he is cited by Harpocration, makes ten
astynomi, five in the city, and as many in the Piraeus. But Samuel Pe-
fitus enlarges their number, as likewise that of the agoranomi to fifteen ;
Aristophanes Scholiast, in Acharn. (5) Symposiac. lib. iv. probl. 4.
(2) Acharnens, act. i. seen. 4. (6) Evangelii. cap. 6 ver. 9.
(3) Theophrast. de Lcgibus. (T) Demosth^n. in Lacritum, HarptfcraJ-
Atjienr-eire. lib. vj. Eustafh. ad IlratT. K'l
meal shotild not be sold at too dear a price, and to appoint the size of
bread. Nearly related to these were the lirofi&gai, or AnrofcxrxToi,
whose office was to see that the measures of corn were just and equal.
Ayo£«vofii.ei, sometimes termed A^yts-a) (I) were ten in number, five be-
longing to the city, and as many to -the Piraeus. Others make them fif-
teen ; ten whereof they gave to the city, and five to the Piraeus, which
was reckoned a third part of Athens. To these men a certain toll or
tribute was paid by all those who brought any thing to sell in the mar-
ket : whence Dicseopolis is introduced by Aristophanes (2), demanding
an eel of a Boeotian for the TjXos tj$s uyogctg, toll of the market:
This thou shalt give me for toll of the market ; for their busines lay in the
market, where they had the care of all vendibles, except corn ; and were
especially obliged to see that no man wronged, or any way circumvented
another in buying or selling (3)
M£t£o»o><>/, were officers that inspected all sorts of measures, except
those of corn : there were five of them in the city, and double that num-
ber in Piraeus, in which the greatest martin Attica was kept.
0^«>s'/x«<, were officers who took care of the fish-market. They were two
or three in number, and chosen by the senate (4). Their name is derived
from otyoi, which, though originally of a more general signification, is
many times appropriated to fish. Thus, Plutarch (5) has informed us :
TloXkuoi avTtvv oTpav, exvtvtxyxsv o <%0l>s ^iov ij ye, oipov xaXtTdar Ma-
rty other things being called o-^/x, that name is nevertheless now applied
only, or chiefly, to fish i whence oTpdgiov is used in that sense by SL
John (6).
Ejxtfo^'if fiftfish'/jrai, were officers that belonged to the haven ; they
were ten in number, and the chief part of their business was to take care
that two parts, at least, of all the corn which was brought into the port,
should be carried into the city, and that no silver should be exported by
any private person, except such as designed to trade in corn (7).
N<*uTo5i'xai, or 'fS^rooixui, had cognizance of controversies that hap-
pened between merchants and mariners, and examined persons, that be-
jng the children of strangers both by the father and mother's side, had by-
fraud inserted their names into the public register, thereby claiming the
privileges of free-born citizens ; this they did upon the 26th of every
month. Not much different from these were the JZirayaysls, according
to Sigonius and Emmi-us's account of them ; only they were to bear such
causes in matters of trade, as required dispatch, and could not be defer-
red to the monthly sessions of the Nat*Te5»'x«*. But Pollux tells us, that
besides those trials, they had cognizance of controversies about feasts and
public entertainments.
Afvpujot, were officers who took care of the streets, and several other
things, especially such as any way concerned the streets, wepiVsTwv ai\7i-
vptSujy, g xo<xpoXiyuv, 5 <rav ro«JT«v, of the minstrels, and singers, and scaven-
gers, and such like. Aristotle, as he is cited by Harpocration, makes ten
astynomi, five in the city, and as many in the Piraeus. But Samuel Pe-
fitus enlarges their number, as likewise that of the agoranomi to fifteen ;
Aristophanes Scholiast, in Acharn. (5) Symposiac. lib. iv. probl. 4.
(2) Acharnens, act. i. seen. 4. (6) Evangelii. cap. 6 ver. 9.
(3) Theophrast. de Lcgibus. (T) Demosth^n. in Lacritum, HarptfcraJ-
Atjienr-eire. lib. vj. Eustafh. ad IlratT. K'l