lexiarch

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In ancient Athens: someone whose role it was to ensure that only citizens entered the ecclesia ("the public legislative assembly of the Athenians"). historical
    — Meantime a number of the Scythian archers, under the command of a lexiarch, had stretched a rope around the Agora in such a manner, that only the street leading to the hill of Pnyx was left free—an old custom, whose sole object was to remind the Athenians, who liked to linger gossipping in the market-place, what way they were to take.

词形变化

lexiarchs plural lexiarchoi plural

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ληξίαρχος (lēxíarkhos).
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