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παιδο-νόμος

paidonomos · ὁ

supervisor of education

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Where it lives

Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 3 · 6.17/10k
Politics 4 · 0.61/10k

What it meant

παιδο-νόμος · paido-nomos — LSJ

supervisor of education

supervisor of education, mostly in pl., of a board of magistrates, as in Crete, Ephor. 149 J.; at Sparta, X. Lac. 2.2; at Miletus, SIG 577.26, al. (iii/ii B. C.); at Ephesus, BMus.Inscr. 481*.274 (παιδω- lapis, ii A. D.); in Caria, CIG 2715.12 (Stratonicea); of a single magistrate, SIG 694.57 (Pergam., ii B. C.); of a woman, Milet. 1(7) No.265; παιδονόμος . . ἀριστοκρατικόν Arist. Pol. 1300a4, cf. 1336a32.

In the wild

παιδονόμος · paidonomos Aristotle, Politics 1299a (DIORISIS sentence 1732)
παιδονόμος · paidonomos Aristotle, Politics 1300a (DIORISIS sentence 1758)
παιδονόμους · paidonomous Aristotle, Politics 1336a (DIORISIS sentence 2944)
παιδονόμοις · paidonomois Aristotle, Politics 1336a (DIORISIS sentence 2951)
παιδονόμος · paidonomos Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2.10 (DIORISIS sentence 38)
παιδονόμος · paidonomos Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 25)

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