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Headword:
Ἀστυνόμος
Adler number: alpha,4269
Translated headword: town-superintendent, astynomos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: There were ten astynomoi - five in
Peiraieus, five in [
Athens] town - whose business it was[1] to supervise both the girl-pipers and the girl-harpists, together with the dung-collectors and suchlike.[2]
Ἀστυνόμος: δέκα ἦσαν ἀστυνόμοι, πέντε μὲν ἐν Πειραιεῖ, πέντε δὲ ἐν ἄστει, οἷς ἔμελλε περί τε τῶν αὐλητρίδων καὶ ψαλτριῶν καὶ κοπρολόγων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's occurrence in
Demosthenes 24.112.
[1] The Greek here has been garbled, with
μέλειν (Harpok.) turning into
ἔμελλε .
[2] The primary source (via Harpok.) is
Aristotle(?),
Ath.Pol. 50.2 (web address 1); see also e.g. Demosth. 24.112, above (web address 2). For the dung-collectors cf.
alpha 2437.
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; geography; history; law; meter and music; rhetoric; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@10:43:25.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 26 August 2002@08:18:05.
William Hutton (cosmetics, added links and keywords, set status) on 28 June 2003@05:58:04.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 28 June 2003@06:02:02.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 30 June 2011@11:17:28.
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