archon
noun
a higher magistrate in ancient Athens.
archonship
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a word derived from
archon.
Example Sentences
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Gradually, however, the archonship lost its power, especially in judicial matters, until it retained merely the right of holding the preliminary investigation and the formal direction of the popular courts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
And this battle took place in the archonship of Callias, twenty-four years after the death of Pericles.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The next year, in the archonship of Alexias, they suffered the disaster of Aegospotami, the consequence of which was that Lysander became master of the city, and set up the Thirty as its governors.
From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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
The Athenians at once invited their allies to a conference, and the Second Athenian Confederacy was formed in the archonship of Nausinicus on the basis of the famous decree of Aristoteles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
