aesymnetes

(αἰσυμνήτης, from αἶσα, a just portion). Originally a judge at the games, but later a person whom his fellow-citizens had voluntarily invested with absolute power, so that Dionysius compares the office with the Roman dictatorship. There is but one express instance known of the bestowal of this office, namely, upon Pittacus, in Mitylené (Dionys.v. 73; Strabo, xiii. 617; Solon, 4; Diog. Laert.i. 75.See Tittmann, Griech. Staatsv. p. 76).