(ἐπιμεληταί; epiméletai). Functionaries, who ‘take care of something’ (epimeleîsthai). The word is used as the title for several Greek officials; see also epískopoi, epistátai.
1. The author of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia mentions for Athens the epimeletai of wells (43,1), of the market (51,4), of the festival of Dionysia (56,4), and of the Eleusinian Mysteries (57,1). Also documented are epimeletai as court officials who deal with the tributes in the Delian-Athenian League (ML 68), epimeletai of shipyards (such as IG II2 1629, 178-179; Dem. Or. 22,63…