Episcopi
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Episcopi were inspectors who were sometimes sent by the Athenians to subject states. Harpocration
compares them to the Lacedaemonian harmosts, and says that they were also called Phylakes. It appears that these Episcopi received a salary at the cost of the cities over which they presided.
Harpocration
Valerius Harpocration was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century CE. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus ; some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus...
compares them to the Lacedaemonian harmosts, and says that they were also called Phylakes. It appears that these Episcopi received a salary at the cost of the cities over which they presided.