ephoros

plural ephoroi

1. alternativeAlternative form of ephor.

   […] similarly to the archons and ephoroses hallmarked a certain era of their science.

   1988, Dénes Karasszon, A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, page 418

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   Although, Lycurgus had, in this manner, used all the qualifications possible in the constitution of his commonwealth, yet those who succeeded him found the oligarchical element still so strong and dominant, and, to check its high temper and its violence, put, as Plato says, a bit in its mouth, which was the power of the ephoroi, established hundred and thirty years after the death of Lycurgus.

   1959, George Toumbouros, The Laws of Ancient Greece, Suddeutscher Verlag Press, page 122

   Pausanias was so slow in comprehending situations that he could not realize the approach of his end until he was directly informed by one of the ephoroi: […]

   1970, American Journal of Philology, volume 91, page 65

   As a theorist, however, he recommends the constitution of a body of superior subjects who would have the task of reining in the will of the king; he argues for the value in their times of the Ephoroi of ancient Sparta.

   1982, Alan Soons, Juan de Mariana (Twayne’s World Authors Series), Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 50

   I do not accept that the ephoroi of Lysias 12.43, 46, said to be chosen by ‘the so-called hetairoi’, were in any way state officials.

   1989, Robert Develin, Athenian Officials, 684–321 B.C., Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 185

   2-4. Κωμάζων: rare name not attested before the 1st cent. A.D.; perhaps our two ephoroi belonged to the same family, edd.pr.

   1993, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, →ISBN, page 394