ἐπιστάτης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ου, ὁ, ([[ἐφίσταμαι]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[one who stands near]] or [[one who stands by]]: hence, like [[ἱκέτης]], [[suppliant]], <b class="b3">οὐ σύ γ' ἂν . . σῷ ἐπιστάτῃ οὐδ' ἅλα</b> δοίης <span class="bibl">Od.17.455</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. in [[battle]]-[[order]], [[one's rear-rank man]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span> 3.3.50</span>, <span class="bibl">8.1.10</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span>. also, [[even numbers]] in a [[λόχος]], Ascl.<span class="title">Tact.</span>2.3, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Tact.</span>6.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span>. [[one who stands]] or [[is mounted upon]], [[ἁρμάτων]] [[ἐπιστάτης]], of a [[charioteer]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>702</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1147</span>; <b class="b3">ἐλεφάντων ἐπιστάτης</b>, of the [[driver]], <span class="bibl">Plb.1.40.11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. [[one who is set over]], [[chief]], [[commander]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>816</span> (<span class="bibl">815</span>); ὅπλων <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pers.</span>379</span>; <b class="b3">ποιμνίων ἐπιστάτης</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>27</span>; <b class="b3">ἐρετμῶν ἐπιστάτης</b> <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span> 1267</span>; <b class="b3">θύματος ἐ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hec.</span>223</span>; but <b class="b3">ταύρων πυρπνόων ζεύγλῃσι</b> [[master]]ing them with... <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Med.</span>478</span>; <b class="b3">ἐνόπτρων καὶ μύρων</b>, of the Trojans, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Or.</span>1112</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης Κολωνοῦ</b>, of a [[tutelary]] [[god]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>889</span>; [<b class="b3">καιρὸς] ἀνδράσιν</b> <b class="b3">μέγιστος ἔργου παντός ἐστ' ἐπιστάτης</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>76</span>; also in Prose, <b class="b3">ἐ. γενέσθαι</b> <b class="b3">τῶν λόγων ἴσους καὶ κοινούς</b> [[judges]], <span class="bibl">And.4.7</span>; <b class="b3">ποίας ἐργασίας ἐπιστάτης</b>; Answ. <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης τοῦ ποιῆσαι δεινὸν λέγειν</b> (where it = [[ἐπιστήμων]]) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>312d</span>; πραγμάτων <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.121</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπιστάται ἄθλων</b> [[steward]]s of [[game]]s, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>949a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Lac.</span>8.4</span>; of a pilot, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Oec.</span>21.3</span>; [[supervisor]] of [[training]], <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">R.</span>412a</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>3.5.18</span> (pl.); ἐ. τῶν παίδων <span class="title">IG</span>12(1).43 (Rhodes); τῶν ἐφήβων <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span>112.73 (i B.C.): voc. [[ἐπιστάτα]], = [[Rabbi]], Ev. <span class="title">Luc.</span>5.5, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span>. [[president]] of a [[board]] or [[assembly]]: at Athens, <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης τῶν πρυτάνεων</b> [[chairman]] of [[βουλή]] and [[ἐκκλησία]] in cent. v, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Ath.</span>44.1</span>, later, [[keeper]] of Treasury or Archives, <span class="title">IG</span>3.841, etc.; [[ἐπιστάτης]] <b class="b3">τῶν προέδρων</b> [[chairman]] of [[βουλή]] and [[ἐκκλησία]] from cent.iv, <span class="bibl">Aeschin. 3.39</span>, <span class="bibl">D.22.9</span>, etc.; ἐ. ὁ ἐκ τῶν προέδρων <span class="title">IG</span>22.204.31 (iv B.C.); in other Greek states, ib.12(1).731 (Rhodes), 12(7).515.116, 125 (Amorgos), etc.; <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης τῶν νομοθετῶν</b> ib.22.222; ἐπιστάτης τῶν δικαστῶν <span class="title">LW</span>1539 (Erythrae). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. [[overseer]], [[superintendent]], in [[charge]] of any [[public]] [[building]] or [[work]]s, <b class="b3">τοῦ νεὼ τοῦ ἐν πόλει</b>, i.e. of the [[temple]] of [[Athena Polias]], <span class="title">IG</span>12.372; ἱεροῦ <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>42.22</span> (ii B.C.); <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης τῶν ἔργων</b> [[clerk]] of the [[work]]s, <span class="bibl">D.18.114</span>, <span class="bibl">[[LXX]] <span class="title">Ex.</span>1.11</span> (pl.); τῶν δημοσίων ἔργων <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.14</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπιστάτης τοῦ ναυτικοῦ</b> ib.222; ἐπιστάτης τῆς Ἀκαδημείας Hyp.<span class="title">Dem.Fr.</span>7; τοῦ Μουσείου <span class="title">OGI</span>104.4 (ii B.C.); τῶν κοπρώνων <span class="bibl">D.25.49</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span>. [[governor]], [[administrator]], τῆς πόλεως <span class="title">OGI</span>254.3 (Babylon, ii B.C.), cf. <span class="title">IG</span>12(3).320.7 (Thera, iii B.C.), <span class="title">OGI</span>479.7 (Dorylaeum, ii A.D.); [[κώμης]] local [[magistrate]], Arch.Pap.4.38. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span>. = [[προστάτης]], Lat. [[patronus]], IG14.1317. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span>. in <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>437</span>, = [[χυτρόπους]], Ar.Byz. ap. <span class="bibl">Eust.1827.45</span>; other explanations, ibid., cf.Sch.Ar.l.c.: [[τοὐπιστάτου]] is fr. [[ἐπίστατος]], = [[πυρίστατος]], Anon. ap. <span class="bibl">Eust.1827.56</span>: dub. sens. in <span class="title">BpW</span>1892.514; cf. [[ἐπίστατον]].</span>