Χειρίζω

[I handle] always.¹
Also [sc. attested is] kexeiroko/tes ["they having handled"]. Candidus the historian² says that Leo the Butcher,³ who was emperor after Marcian,⁴ spent countless funds in his campaign against the Vandals. For, as those who had handled these [funds] made known, there were [spent] 47,000 [coming] from the prefects, and 17,000 pounds of gold and 700,000 pounds of silver [coming] from the count of the treasuries, not to mention the [money] spent [coming] from the confiscatory officials and from emperor Anthemius.
"... for the sake ... the city put...into my hands as a gift unsought. Creon [Author, Myth] the trusted, the old-time friend, comes up to me stealthily, desiring to throw me out of this [office]".⁵