The corpus record

ζητ-ητής

zetetes · ὁ

seeker, inquirer

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Where it lives

Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

seeker, inquirer

seeker, inquirer, τινος Pl. R. 618c; φαῦλος ζ. Id. Chrm. 175e.

II commissioners to inquire into extraordinary offences, to recover moneys owing to the State

ζητηταί, οἱ, at Athens, commissioners to inquire into extraordinary offences or to recover moneys owing to the State, And. 1.14 (sg.), Lys. 21.16, D. 24.11, Pl.Com. 125 (sg.).

In the wild

ζητητὴς · zētētēs Plato, Republic 10.618 (DIORISIS sentence 6344)

Where it came from

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