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Definition of Archons
1. archon [n] - See also: archon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archons
Literary usage of Archons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In their new position as presidents of thc several courts, the archons received
trial, and gave instructions for thc execution of the sentence. ..."
2. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"Abolition of royalty. Life archons. Decennial archons. Annual archons. § 3. ...
The nine archons and their functions. The senate of Areopagus. §6. ..."
3. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"Some magistrates, for instance the three senior archons, chose their own ...
that this was so in the case of the assessors of the first three archons, ..."
4. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"... cities.5 We also- find local archons in the several cities.6 Though many of
the inscriptions which record the names of these archons are doubtless later ..."
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