Also [sc. attested is] prwtoashkrh/tis ["(office of the) chief secretary.[1]
*sh/krhton. kai\ *prwtoashkrh/tis.
The unglossed primary headword is a straight transliteration of Latin
secretum.
[1] (Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF. In other mss the orthography of the noun varies: see below.) This is the title of a high-ranked official of the Byzantine court from the 6th century CE onwards. He is the head
a)shkrh/ths, overseeing the imperial notaries in charge of elaborating official documents and keeping records. It is also spelt
prwtoashkrh/ths and
prwtashkrh/tis. In the Byzantine sources the term seems to be invariable: see e.g. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus,
De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae 708.9, 709.18, 714.15, 759.12 Reiske; ps.-Symeon,
Chronographia 668.4 Bekker;
Theophanes Continuatus,
Chronographia 195.14 Bekker; Michael Psellus,
Orationes forenses et acta 7.25, 7.89, 7.104, 7.136 Dennis;
Zonaras,
Epitome historiarum (lib. 13-18) 244.17, 403.15 Büttner-Wobst, etc. Nevertheless
Sophocles'
Lexicon mentions an accusative form.
E.A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods (New York, 1900), s.v. sh/krhton and prwtoashkrh/tis.
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