in antiquity, an officer in the Athenian courts of justice, who was to provide the plaintiff and defendant with equal water hour-glares. When the glas was run out, they were not permitted to speak any farther; and, therefore, we find them very careful not to lose or mispend one drop of their water. Whilst the laws quoted by them were reciting, or if any other business happened to intervene, they gave orders that the glas should be stopped.

EPIBATRION, among the Greeks, marines, or soldiers who served on board the ships of war. They were armed in the same manner as the land forces, only that more of them wore full or heavy armour.