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- Look up δημόσιος in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Demosioi or Demosii (Ancient Gr****: δημόσιοι, singular Demosios) generally referred to a class of...
- not courageous. Toxotai also referred to the class of public slaves, or Demosioi, also known as Scythian archers, who were depicted as carrying bows and...
- mines, as domestic servants, or even as a public utility, as with the demosioi of Athens. Modern historiographical practice distinguishes between chattel...
- sitologoi, 'grain collectors'), public cattle drivers (δημόσιοι kτηνοτρόφοι, dēmósioi ktēnotróphoi, 'cattleherds of the demos'), and cargo supervisors (ἐπίπλοοι...
- Aristophanes. The force is said to have consisted of 300 public slaves (demosioi), who wore Scythian dress and were equipped with bows and arrows in gorytos...
- origin in the demosioi, or state slaves, of ancient Greece who were emplo**** in the mint or as other treasury functionaries, and the term demosioi zygostatai...