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|Definition=[ῠ], ᾰκος, ὁ (ἡ <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">4 Ma.</span>15.32</span>), <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">guardian of the laws</b>, title of officials appointed to watch over the laws and their observance, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>755a</span>, <span class="bibl">770c</span>, etc.; οἱ ν. ἀριστοκρατικόν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1323a8</span>, cf. Cic.<span class="title">Legg.</span>3.20.46; at Athens, <span class="bibl">Philoch.141b</span>, etc.; at Sparta, <span class="bibl">Paus.3.11.2</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>5(1).31, al.; at Thasos, <span class="title">BCH</span>52.55 (iv/iii B.C.); at Alexandria, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHal.</span>1.42</span> (iii B.C.), prob. in Mitteis <span class="title">Chr.</span>369 i 33 (iii B.C.); at Priene, <span class="title">SIG</span>282.17 (iv B.C.); at Cyrene, <span class="title">Abh.Berl.Akad.</span> 1925(5).7 (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">observer of the law</b>, σὺ ἡ ν. LXX l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> minor official under control of village elders, with police and fiscal duties, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PAmh.</span>2.108.8</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>759.20</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>122.7</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1440.7</span> (all ii A.D.).</span>