Demitsas

εὐεργέτ-ις, ιδος, (parox.) fem. of εὐεργέτης, E. Alc. 1058: as Adj.,

A

εὐ. ψυχή Pl.Lg. 896e

;

ἀρετή Ph.2.164

:—also [suff] εὐεργέτ-ισσα, ἡ, Demitsas Μακεδ. No. 421 (Thessalonica, ii A. D.).

νίννη, ἡ, perh.

A grandmother or mother-in-law, Demitsas Μακεδ. No. 416 (Thessalonica, ii A.D.); also [full] νίνη ib.No. 415 (ibid.); cf. νέννος.

πολῑταρχ-έω,

A hold office of πολιτάρχης, Demitsas

Μακεδ. 364

, al. ([place name] Thessalonica), Sammelb.5765.7 (Egypt, iii/iv A. D.).

συνθῐᾰσ-ίτης [ῑ], ου, ὁ,

A = -ώτης, PGrenf.1.31.5 (ii B.C.), Demitsas Μακεδ. p.319 ([place name] Ressova): fem. [suff] συνθῐᾰς-ῖτις, ιδος, ἡ, PEnteux.21.2 (iii B.C.), Inscr.Délos 1403 Bb ii 94(ii B.C.).

ἰουλοφόρος [ῐ], ον,

A downy, γένυς Demitsas Μακεδ.No.410 (Thessalonica, ii A.D.).

πολιτάρχης, ου, ὁ (on the form cp. πολίαρχος Mason 76f; found only in ins and pap, but Aeneas Tact. 26, 12 has a dialectical variant πολίταρχος) a magistrate who formed part of a town or city council, city official. No precise job description is extant, but administration of security measures, as indicated Aeneas Tact. 26, 12 and suggested by the circumstances recorded Ac 17:5–13, was certainly assigned to such office, which predates 167 B.C.. A number of π. (five or six in Thessalonica) formed the city council in Macedonian cities, and occasionally in others (s. EBurton, The Politarchs in Macedonia and Elsewhere: AJTh 2, 1898, 598–632 w. exx. fr. ins; s. also SIG 700, 1; 48 [the Maced. city of Letae, 118/117 B.C.]; POxy 745, 4 [I B.C./I A.D.]; Sb 5765, 7), specif. in Thessalonica (CIG II 1967; BCH 18, 1894, 420; 21, 1897, 161 al.; fr. Berea SEG XXVII, 261 [II B.C.] παρὰ τῶν πολιταρχῶν οὐ εἷς=one ‘no’ vote from among the politarchs) Ac 17:6, 8.—Ins in IMakedD; EBurton, AJT 2, 1898, 598–632; Ferguson, Legal Terms 65f and index, p. 103 w. reff. to Demitsas; CSchuler, ClPh 55, ’60, 90–100 [w. list of all then-known ins referring to Macedonia, most from Thess.]; JOliver, ClPh 58, ’63, 164f; Pauly-W., Suppl. 13, ’73, 483–500; BLaourdas/CMakaronas, edd., Ancient Macedonia II ’77, 139–50 [JCormack, ‘Gymnasiarchal Law of Beroea’], 531–44 [BHelly, ‘Politarques, Poliarques et Polito-phylaques’]; MHatzopoulos, in Dritter internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress zu Ehren WTomascheks, 2–6 Juni 1980, ’84, 137–49; GHorsley, ABD V, 384–89, w. list of ins and bibl.; Boffo, Iscrizioni no. 27 (lit.); Hemer Acts 115; s. also New Docs, ’82, 34f; SEG XLIV, 499.—S. DELG s.v. ἄρχω C. M-M.