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See also:LOGOTHETE (Med. See also:Lat. logothela, Gr. Xo'yoBErtls, from Xdyos, word, See also:account, calculation, and riOEvai, to set, i.e. " one who accounts, calculates or ratiocinates ")
, originally the See also:title of a variety of administrative officials in the See also:Byzantine See also:Empire, e.g. the XoyoOir>is rou 46/1ov, who was practically the See also:equivalent of the See also:modern postmaster-See also:general; and the XoyoBErrls ro"v irrpariwn ov, the See also:logothete of the military See also:chest
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See also:Gibbon de-fines the See also:great Logothete as " the supreme See also:guardian of the See also:laws and revenues," who " is compared with the See also:chancellor of the Latin monarchies." From the Eastern Empire the title was borrowed by the See also:West, though it only became firmly established in See also:Sicily, where the logotlzeta occupied the position of chancellor elsewhere, his See also:office being equal if not See also:superior to that of the See also:magnus cancellarius
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Thus the title was See also:borne by Pietro della Vigna, the all-powerful See also:minister of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II., See also: |
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