ZĒTĒTAE (ζητηταί), Inquisitors, were extraordinary officers, appointed by the Athenians to discover the authors of some crime against the state, and bring them to justice. They were more frequently appointed to search for confiscated property, the goods of condemned criminals and state debtors; to receive and give information against any persons who concealed, or assisted in concealing them, and to deliver an inventory of all such goods (ἀπογράφειν) to the proper authorities.

ZŌNA, also called CINGŬLUM (ζώνη, ζῶμα, ζωστῆρ, μίτρα), a girdle or zone, worn about the loins by both sexes. The chief use of this article of dress was to hold up the tunic (ζώννυσθαι), which was more especially requisite to be done when persons were at work, on a journey, or engaged in hunting. The zona is also represented in many statues and pictures of men in armour as worn round the cuirass. The girdle, mentioned by Homer, seems to have been a constituent part of the cuirass, serving to fasten it by means of a buckle, and also affording an additional protection to the body, and having a short kind of petticoat attached to it, as is shown in the figure of the Greek warrior in [p. 240]. The cut at p. 4 shows that the ancient cuirass did not descend low enough to secure that part of the body which was covered by the ornamental kilt or petticoat. To supply this defect was the design of the mitra (μίτρα), a brazen belt lined probably on the inside with leather and stuffed with wool, which was worn next to the body. Men used their girdles to hold money instead of a purse. As the girdle was worn to hold up the garments for the sake of business or of work requiring despatch, so it was loosened and the tunic was allowed to fall down to the feet to indicate the opposite condition, and more especially in preparing to perform a sacrifice (veste recincta), or funeral rites (discincti, incinctae). A girdle was worn by young women, even when their tunic was not girt up, and removed on the day of marriage, and therefore called ζώνη παρθενική.

ZŌPHŎRUS (ζωφόρος or διάζωμα), the frieze of an entablature.

TABLES
OF
GREEK AND ROMAN MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND MONEY.

TablePage
I.Greek Measures of Length.
(1) Smaller Measures[424]
II.Roman Measures of Length.
(1) Smaller Measures[424]
III.Greek Measures of Length.
(2) Land and Itinerary[425]
IV.Roman Measures of Length.
(2) Land and Itinerary[426]
V.Greek Measures of Surface[426]
VI.Roman Measures of Surface[427]
VII.Greek Measures of Capacity.
(1) Liquid Measures[428]
VIII.Roman Measures of Capacity.
(1) Liquid Measures[429]
IX.Greek Measures of Capacity.
(2) Dry Measures[430]
X.Roman Measures of Capacity.
(2) Dry Measures[430]
XI.Greek Weights[431]
XII.Greek Money[432]
XIII.Roman Weights.
(1) The As and its Uncial Divisions[433]
XIV.Roman Weights.
(2) Subdivisions of the Uncia[433]
XV.Roman Money.
(1) Before Augustus[434]
XVI.Roman Money.
(2) After Augustus[434]

TABLE I.
GRECIAN MEASURES OF LENGTH.

I. Smaller Measures.Feet.Inches.
Δάκτυλος” ·7584375
2Κόνδυλος”1·516875
42Παλαιστή, Δῶρον, Δοχμή, or Δακτυλοδοχμή”3·03375
842Διχάς, or Ἡμιπόδιον”6·0675
1052½1¼Διχάς”7·584375
115½2¾1⅜11/10Ὀρθοδῶρον”8·3428125
12631½1⅕11/11Σπιθαμή”9·10125
168421⅗15/111⅓ΠΟῩΣ10·135
1894½2¼1⅘17/111½1⅛Πυγμή11·651875
201052½219/111⅔1¼11/9Πυγών13·16875
2412632⅖22/1121½1⅓1⅕ΠΗΧΥΣ16·2025
72361897⅕66/1164½43⅗3Ξύλον46·6075
964824129⅗88/11865⅓4⅘41⅓ὈΡΓΥΙΆ60·81