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Hieromnemon   Listen
noun
Hieromnemon  n.  (Gr. Antiq.)
1.
The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.
2.
A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.





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... Thessalians, who held the presidency, and perhaps of a few other communities, must have been elected, the office was ordinarily, as at Athens, filled by lot. As a rule they were renewed annually (Aristoph. Clouds, 623 f.; Foucart, in Bull. Hell. vii. 411, 413 f.). Each hieromnemon was accompanied by two pylagori, elected semi-annually (Demosth. xviii. 149; Aeschin. iii. 115; Tim. Lex. Plat., s.v. 'Amfiktuones), and representing the same tribe, though not necessarily the same city. On one occasion Athens is known to have sent ...
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