ephoros

English

Noun

ephoros (plural ephoroi)

1. Alternative form of ephor.
   • 1959, George Toumbouros, The Laws of Ancient Greece, Suddeutscher Verlag Press, page 122:

     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.

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

     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: […]

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

   • 1993, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, →ISBN, page 394:

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

   • 1997, György W Hegyi, “Text and Tradition: The Case of Lykourgos”, in Történeti tanulmányok – Hungarian Polis Studies, volume 6, Debrecen: KLTE, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 44:

     If we consider the profound changes that were initiated, or at least catalyzed by literacy in state burocracy, the pre-emtion^[sic] of the move that threatened to subvert the state and endanger the privileges of the gerons, ephoroses and kings, that is, the guardians of the law, (where the word "guardian" means both "keeper" and "controller") is easy to understand.