City notables/ the city elders/ representatives of the town

City leaders. Representatives of the city or respected people who live in it (in the past, the 'good men of the city' were the heads of the Jewish community who were the beneficiaries of the authority conferred by the halacha).

("An episode involving King Solomon, peace be upon him, who said by the Holy Spirit: 'I found one man among a thousand, but a woman among all these I did not find.' When the people and the Sanhedrin heard this, they were astonished. Solomon said: If you want, I will show you. They all replied, Yes. He said to them: Seek a woman from among the city notables, and also a man, who will be better than them all. They searched and found one man who had a good and beautiful wife" - Otsar HaMidrashim (Aizenshtayn), Shlomo HaMelekh, 531; and likewise: "An innocent man, in the plain sense of the word, without any cleverness at all... was not an important person among the city notables" - Mendele Mocher Sforim / Mas'ot Binyamin HaShlishi, 3:23; and likewise: "The city notables agreed to pay the cost of feeding the donkey until they would judge his case" - Agnon / Tmol Shilshom, 374; and likewise: "The heads of the community and the city notables, all the rabbis and the Torah scholars, were seated at the great table... and spoke words of piety" - H. Zaz / Ddorot HaRishonim, 18.)

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