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γραμματεύς

γραμματεύς, a secretary, clerk

γραμμᾰτ-εύς, έως, ὁ,
  • secretary, registrar, title of officials at Athens and elsewhere, IG 1(2).15, etc.; ὁ γ. ὁ τῆς πόλεως Th. 7.10; γ. τοῦ δήμου OGI 493.10 (Ephesus, ii A. D.), Act.Ap. 19.35; γ. ἀνδραπόδων PHib. 29.7; γ. τῶν μαχίμων UPZ 110.145 (ii B. C.); γ. τοῦ θεοῦ IG 9(2).1109.21 (Magn. Thess.); also of subordinate officials, clerk, sts. a term of contempt, ὄλεθρος γ. D. 18.127; θεοῖς ἐχθρὸς καὶ γ. Id. 19.95; ἡ γ., in joke, Ar. Th. 432.
      • 2 metaph., recorder, of memory, Pl. Phlb. 39a.
      • 3 scholar, γ. σαφής A. Fr. 358 (s. v. l.).
      • 4 one who traces or marks out, of Egyptian embalmers, D.S. 1.91.

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