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From the accounts just adduced, we do not however wish to infer any thing further, than how variable were the opinions, and how little historical the statements, concerning the original object of the ephoralty.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

The extensive political influence of Lacedæmon also contributed to give a greater importance to the ephoralty.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

The Messenians also would hardly, upon the re-establishment of their state, have received the ephoralty into their government,466 if they had thought it only an institution of some Spartan king.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

Without an election, however, Chilon could not have attained the ephoralty, nor his brother have been able to complain that he was postponed.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

In the constitution of Lycurgus, as it has been hitherto developed, the ephoralty of later times would not only have been a superfluous, but a destructive addition.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried