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To these the Hephaestia has now been added, in the archonship of Cephisophon.

From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

And when he was eighty-two years old he died in the archonship of Theophilus, who succeeded Callimachus; for he is the eighty-second archon after Apollodorus.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

It was acted in the archonship of Ameinon, in the fourth year of the 87th Olympiad.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

Thus was the oligarchy established, in the archonship of Callias, just about a hundred years after the expulsion of the tyrants.

From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Evolution of the Office.—The history of the democratization of the archonship is beset with equal difficulty.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various