from 1909 and a presumed derivative of 3700; TDNT - 5:373,706
AV - eyewitness 1; 1
1) an overseer, inspector
2) spectator, eye witness of anything
This was the name given to those who had attained to the third, i.e the highest grade of the Eleusinian mysteries; these were celebrated annually at Eleusis and Athens in ancient times, in memory of the abduction and return of Persephone and in honour of Demeter and Bacchus.