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The title given to certain magistrates in various Dorian states, esp. at Sparta, where the five ephors, appointed annually by popular election…
Each of the six inferior archons in ancient Athens, who were judges and law-givers; hence transferred one who lays down the law.
The chief magistrate, and, after the time of Solon, one of the nine chief magistrates of the Athenian republic.