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agonothet(e Gr. Antiq.|əˈgəʊnəθiːt, -θɛt|
[ad. Gr. ἀγωνοθέτης f. ἀγών contest + θέτης a disposer; f. vbl. stem θε- to place. Also used in the Gr. forms.]
A superintendent or director of the great public games of Greece.
1626Cockeram, Agonotheth, a Judge in masteries of actiuity. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. IV. x. 405 Of which games the Amphictyons were judges and agonothetæ. 1865Athenæum No. 1964, 818/1 The agonothet for each year. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 505 He gravely assumed the titles of archon and agonothetes. |