Note 203 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.

There was not wanting of course a certain joint action, similar to that which is exercised by the regiones and the vici of self-administering urban communities; to this category belongs what we meet with of agoranomy and gymnasiarchy in the nomes, as also the erection of honorary memorials and the like, all of which, we may add, make their appearance only to a small extent and for the most part but late. According to the edict of Alexander (C. I. Gr. 4957, l. 34) the strategoi do not seem to have been, properly speaking, nominated by the governor, but only to have been confirmed after an examination; we do not know who had the proposing of them.