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 keeping of the records, which included, under the Areopagite, diplomatic correspondence at least, as well as decisions, indictments and "laws," which in turn included public decrees and council decisions of all sorts. A little later works of the Dramatists are found among the archives, but whether for censorship, copyright or public library purposes is not known. The Areopagite as Keeper of laws, (nomophylax) was, in short, like his later brothers the Keeper of books (bibliophylax), the Keeper of the charters or rolls (papyri), (chartophylax), Keeper of writings (grammataphylax), and the Keeper of witnessed documents (syngraphaphylax) a keeper of records.

This record office was in the time of Draco and Solon and for a century following on the Areopagus, but about 460 B.C. it was removed by Ephialtes to quarters more accessible for public use, close