ephors
- plural of ephor.
Example Sentences
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Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash are among the singers to have been honourably discharged.According to Plutarch, the ephors sent back a message simply saying "if".
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2012
The inaccuracy of later writers has confounded the steps preparatory to the sentence, with the sentence itself; a power of life and death in the hands of the ephors would have been worse than tyranny.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
The ephors, again, exercised a general guardianship of law and custom and superintended the training of the young.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
From the view of this office now taken, the continued extension of the powers of the ephors may be more easily accounted for.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Hence it appears, that the supposed expression of Theopompus referred rather to the powers of the ephors in later times, than to their original condition.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
