Definition of Ephori

1. ephor [n] - See also: ephor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephori

ephemeropteran
ephemerous
ephemerovirus
ephesite
ephialtes
ephippia
ephippial
ephippium
ephod
ephods
ephor
ephoral
ephoralty
ephorate
ephorates
ephori (current term)
ephors
ephraim
ephrin
ephrins
ephus
ephyra
ephyrae
epi
epi-
epi-coprostanol
epi-coprosterol
epialexine
epiallele
epialleles

Literary usage of Ephori

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"THE LAST OF THE ephori. NABIS—A Semitic on the Rampage in Greece—How a ... Measure—The ephori—How Their Tyranny Destroyed the Laboring People—They even ..."

2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"AGESILAUS RECALLED BY THE ephori TO DEFEND HIS COUNTRY. AGESILAUS had been two years at the head of the army, and had already made the most remote provinces ..."

3. A Compendium of Grecian Antiquities by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1854)
"The ephori were five in number, and were elected ... To the institution of the Their in- ephori, the Spartans were indebted for that internal ..."

4. Universal History, from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the by Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee (1850)
"These officers, termed ephori, were five in number; they were elected by the people, and enjoyed a similar but a higher power than that of the tribunes of ..."

5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... was not1 BOOK o be contrived or fomented by any per- ^lity: yet it was discoursed after in the 1640. mons by Mr. Strode (one of those ephori .v ^ wed ..."

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