AGORONOMUS, in Antiquity, a Magistrate of Athens, establish’d for the Maintenance of good Order, and Policy in the Markets; the Inspection of the Weights, Measures, &c. The Agoronomus was much the same with the Curule Aedile among the Romans. See EDICT.
The Word is compounded of the Greek, agora, Market, and nomos, to distribute. Aristotle distinguishes two Kinds of Magistrates: the agoronomi, who had the attendance of the Markets; and the Astynomi, who inspected the Buildings.
