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Headword:
Epistatês
Adler number: epsilon,2611
Translated headword: chairman
Vetting Status: high
Translation: One of the prytaneis [sc. in classical
Athens], chosen by lot, was known as the chairman. It was not possible for the same man to serve as chairman twice. He keeps the keys of the temple in which the public monies [are kept], and also the public seal. Whenever the prytaneis convene the council or the people, the chairman selects by lot nine proedroi, one from each tribe except the [tribe] in prytany. And again from these nine he selects by lot one chairman and hands over the business [to him];[1] he himself introduces the lawsuit[s] and, in accordance with law, ensures that everything happens and nothing is omitted in the instruction of the jurors.
Greek Original:Epistatês: tôn prutaneôn heis ho lachôn epistatês elegeto. dis de ton auton epistatêsai ouk exên. phulassei de tou hierou tas kleis, en hôi ta dêmosia chrêmata, eti mên kai tên dêmosian sphragida. epeidan de hoi prutaneis sunagagôsi tên boulên ê ton dêmon, ho epistatês klêroi proedrous ennea, apo phulês hekastês hena, plên tês prutaneuousês. kai palin ek tôn ennea toutôn epistatên hena klêroi kai to pragma paradidôsin: autos de eisagei tên dikên kai epimeleitai kata nomon panta genesthai kai mêden paraleiphthênai pros to didachthênai tous dikastas.
Notes:
Keywords: constitution; definition; ethics; law; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 August 2006@04:54:21.
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