ephor
noun
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
ephori
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pluralof ephor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But it may be said the ephori seem to have a check upon all the magistrates.
From Politics: A Treatise on Government by William Ellis
Colleagues and ephori were in times past as unpleasant associates in the duties of government as protecting powers now are.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
For the new creation of the ephori, though thought to be in favor of the people, was so far from diminishing, that it very much heightened, the aristocratical character of the government.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
Moreover, with respect to two magistracies of the highest rank, one they have a right to elect to, the other to fill; namely, the senate and the ephori.
From Politics: A Treatise on Government by William Ellis
For this purpose, the ephori, we are told, were established at Sparta, the council of a hundred at Carthage, and the tribunes at Rome.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson
