logothete

[Gr. logos =a word, and tithēmi =to place.] An accountant; an officer of the Byzantine Empire, who was the head of an admin is trative department, the public treasurer, or the chancellor of the empire. "In the ancient system of Const an tine, the name of logothete , or accountant, was applied to the receivers of the finances: the principal officers were distinguished as the logothetes of the domain, of the posts, the army, the private and public treasure; and the great logothete , the supreme guardian of the laws and revenues, is compared with the chancellor of the Latin Monarchies."- Gibbon : Roman Empire , ch. liii.