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23. MAGISTRATES AND OFFICIALS. 443
ordinary years the immensely fertile and highly cultivated valley of the
Maeander produced sufficient grain for Eumeneia. Similarly at Apameia,
which commanded a wide territory \ there was perhaps not a regular
seitones but only an occasional officer (as seems implied by no. 299 f)2.
The name Futheniarch was used in some places, apparently as
almost equivalent to Seitones s; he was apparently the chief of a staff
of officials who regulated and provided the supply of corn (evB^uia) i.
Sitodotes and Bitometres, who are occasionally mentioned, were not
officials, but persons who made a distribution of corn to any body of
citizens5.
(6) Gymnasiabch. The most important duty of this official was to
arrange for the distribution of oil. It is difficult for a northern race
to understand the importance attached to this by the Greek cities;
but oil was in them regarded as practically a necessity of life, and the
inscriptions of Asia are full of references to it0. A decree of the
Gerousia of Magnesia Mae. is instructive in this connexion7: after
referring to the extreme usefulness of oil for the physical well-being of
all, and specially of old men, it enacts that, beyond the allowance
of feix choes given by the state to each individual, the revenues of the
Gerousia shall be charged with a further distribution (probably to
members only). The allowance made by the state to all citizens was,
doubtless, managed by the Gymnasiarch. The system of exercise in
the Gymnasia involved the use of great quantities of oil; and hence
the Manager of the Gymnasium gradually came to be really an official
charged to provide oil for the whole population 8.
In Apameia the state paid to the Gymnasiarch 15,000 denarii to
meet the expense of providing oil9. But it is clear that this sum
1 The plains of Apameia andAulokra 5 <mro/terpi;sWadd. 1228, 12666, BCH
(Dombai-Ova) are both very fertile and 1886 p. 58, Aristotle Pol. IV 15, 3; auo.
of considerable extent (though not like 8<5njs CIG 2804.
the Eumeneticus campus). c LW 1602 a, Le Bas-Foucart 120,121,
2 The term <mro>Wa occurs at Lagina 243 d, 237 a &c. Tacitus Ann. XIV 47
(BCH 1887 p. 32) in a difficult phrase, gymnasium eo anno dedicatum a Nerone,
which perhaps indicates, not an office, praeoitumque oleum equiti ac senatui
but a single donation of money for Graeca facilitate. See BCH 1888 pp. 91 f.
purchasing corn. 7 BCH 1888 pp. 206 ff. See above,
tvBrjviapxiiKQTa iv tTT€VO)(&p<p Kdipco at p. II3^«
Stratonicea, about the early part of the s At Colossai this duty was performed
third century BCH 1888 p. 86. «rt- by an eVi/ieA>;T;)f rjjr tov iXaiov deaeas
neXriTijs evdrjuias has the same sense CIG LW 16536 ; see p. 212.
1186. 9 At Magnesia Mae. to 8iSd>eray napb
4 Hence annona is rendered (vSrjvia rrjs noXeus erf Iku.<ttij q/xepg i'Kaiov Itavavv
in the title enapxos evdijvias praefectus proves that state money was appro-
annonae CIG 5895, 5973, Kaibel 917. priated to the purchase, and we gather
ordinary years the immensely fertile and highly cultivated valley of the
Maeander produced sufficient grain for Eumeneia. Similarly at Apameia,
which commanded a wide territory \ there was perhaps not a regular
seitones but only an occasional officer (as seems implied by no. 299 f)2.
The name Futheniarch was used in some places, apparently as
almost equivalent to Seitones s; he was apparently the chief of a staff
of officials who regulated and provided the supply of corn (evB^uia) i.
Sitodotes and Bitometres, who are occasionally mentioned, were not
officials, but persons who made a distribution of corn to any body of
citizens5.
(6) Gymnasiabch. The most important duty of this official was to
arrange for the distribution of oil. It is difficult for a northern race
to understand the importance attached to this by the Greek cities;
but oil was in them regarded as practically a necessity of life, and the
inscriptions of Asia are full of references to it0. A decree of the
Gerousia of Magnesia Mae. is instructive in this connexion7: after
referring to the extreme usefulness of oil for the physical well-being of
all, and specially of old men, it enacts that, beyond the allowance
of feix choes given by the state to each individual, the revenues of the
Gerousia shall be charged with a further distribution (probably to
members only). The allowance made by the state to all citizens was,
doubtless, managed by the Gymnasiarch. The system of exercise in
the Gymnasia involved the use of great quantities of oil; and hence
the Manager of the Gymnasium gradually came to be really an official
charged to provide oil for the whole population 8.
In Apameia the state paid to the Gymnasiarch 15,000 denarii to
meet the expense of providing oil9. But it is clear that this sum
1 The plains of Apameia andAulokra 5 <mro/terpi;sWadd. 1228, 12666, BCH
(Dombai-Ova) are both very fertile and 1886 p. 58, Aristotle Pol. IV 15, 3; auo.
of considerable extent (though not like 8<5njs CIG 2804.
the Eumeneticus campus). c LW 1602 a, Le Bas-Foucart 120,121,
2 The term <mro>Wa occurs at Lagina 243 d, 237 a &c. Tacitus Ann. XIV 47
(BCH 1887 p. 32) in a difficult phrase, gymnasium eo anno dedicatum a Nerone,
which perhaps indicates, not an office, praeoitumque oleum equiti ac senatui
but a single donation of money for Graeca facilitate. See BCH 1888 pp. 91 f.
purchasing corn. 7 BCH 1888 pp. 206 ff. See above,
tvBrjviapxiiKQTa iv tTT€VO)(&p<p Kdipco at p. II3^«
Stratonicea, about the early part of the s At Colossai this duty was performed
third century BCH 1888 p. 86. «rt- by an eVi/ieA>;T;)f rjjr tov iXaiov deaeas
neXriTijs evdrjuias has the same sense CIG LW 16536 ; see p. 212.
1186. 9 At Magnesia Mae. to 8iSd>eray napb
4 Hence annona is rendered (vSrjvia rrjs noXeus erf Iku.<ttij q/xepg i'Kaiov Itavavv
in the title enapxos evdijvias praefectus proves that state money was appro-
annonae CIG 5895, 5973, Kaibel 917. priated to the purchase, and we gather