Hypocosmetae
ὑποκοσμηταί
Hypocosmetae (ὑποκοσμηταί) frequently occur in Athenian inscriptions of the time of the Roman empire, as assistants of the κοσμητής, who at that period was the chief officer who regulated the exercises of the Gymnasium. [Krause, Gymnastik und Agonistik, 1.212 ff.; C. I. G. 270, 274 (addit.); GYMNASIUM p. 928 a.]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.