Gr. Antiq. Also -kon. [a. Gr. θεωρικόν, neut. of θεωρικός THEORIC a.2] The theoric fund in ancient Athens: see THEORIC a.2]
1828. trans. Boeckh’s Public Econ. Athens, I. 294. The payment of the Theoricon out of the public money was first introduced by Pericles…. This distribution of the Theoricon filled the theatre.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., Theoricon, in ancient Attic History, the name given to that portion of the revenue of the state which was … reserved for the purpose of theatrical representations.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lxvi. VIII. 424. The manager of the Theôrikon or religious festival-fund.
