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Ephor   Listen
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Ephor  n.  (pl. ephors, L. ephori)  (Gr. Antiq.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.






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"Ephor" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the toils and hardships of the soldiers, and wearing nothing to distinguish him from them; but while he was away everything had gone wrong at Sparta; people had gone back to their old bad habits, and Agesilaus was using his office of Ephor so shamefully that he had been obliged to have a guard of soldiers to protect him from the people. This behaviour had made the people suspect his nephew of being dishonest in his reforms, and they ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge



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