Citations:gynæconome

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English citations of gynæconome

Ancient Greek civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally

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  • 1858, Doctor Doran (John), Table Traits With Something On Them, third edition, The Parasite, page 222:
    When Chœrephon had, uninvited, slipped into a vacant position at a wedding‐dinner, the gynæconomes, as inspectors of the feast, counting the guests, came upon him last, and said, “ You are the thirty‐first : it is against the law ; you must withdraw.”
  • 1891, E. Leuty Collins, Hadasseh, Or From Captivity to the Persian Throne, page 300:
    [] while the gynæconomes (inspectors of the feast), with shaven heads and oily bodies, crept about the scene like so many women.