agoranomi

An agoranomos (, plural: agoranomoi, ἀγορανόμοι) was an elected official in the cities of Ancient Greece and Byzantine Empire, responsible for order in the marketplace (agora, hence the name, translated as "market overseer"). A polis could have several of them. The position was similar to the Roman aedile.

Their duties included setting prices for certain goods, certifying goods and weights and scales, controlling money exchange, and the important function of managing the supply of the polis with grain. In controlling unscrupulous merchants, an agoranomos had the right to impose corporal punishment (and was often portrayed walking along the agora with a whip) on non-freeborn people, and fines on free citizens. An agoranomos also kept an eye on temples in the agora.