Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 200:14

סבור מינה משום דבקיאי בשומא א"ל רב יוסף בר מניומי לדידי מיפרשא לי מיניה דרב נחמן משום דקרו להו בני אכלי נכסי דאכרזתא

They thought that [the reason was] because they were experts in assessments. [But] R. Joseph b. Minyomi said to them: It was explained to me by R. Nahman [that the reason is] because they were nicknamed “consumers of publicly auctioned estates.”

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