nounĕpistătesEPISTATES☆ KeepMeaningan overseerLewis & Short 1879ModernAs printed, 1879EPISTATESLEWIS & SHORTEPISTATESĕpistătes, ae, m., = ἐπιστάτης, I. an overseer, superintendent, Cato, R. R. 56; Tert. Mart. 3.Read the whole entryIn the Academy Smith's classical dictionariesAntiquitiesEpistatesEpistates (ἐπιστάτης), which means a person placed over anything, was the name of two distinct classes of functionaries in the Athenian state; namely,…