Meddix Tutĭcus
(also Medix, Maedix). “Community-manager.” The
title of the chief magistrate in the Oscan and Sabellian towns in Italy. So we find the name
used at Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Bovianum, and at Capua after the Samnites got possession of
the city. The word
meddix is probably cognate with
μέδω, and
tuticus with the Oscan
tauta, tuta, “a town.” See Mommsen,
Unterital.
Dialekte, p. 278; Curtius,
Gk. Etym. p. 225; and Mommsen,
Hist.
of Rome, i. p. 321 (Amer. ed.).