Archons
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1 expressionThe Archon“Athenian magistrate”2 mentions
On The Estate of Apollodorus (Greek) · Constitution of the Athenians (Greek)
And there is not merely a personal feeling in favor of this course, but the state has taken public measures to secure that it shall be followed, since by law it entrusts the archon with the duty of preventing families from being extinguished.
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Against Alcibiades
Athenian magistrates responsible for matters including family law; invoked both literally, as the official before whom Alcibiades's wife sought divorce, and figuratively, as a model of impartial judgment urged upon the audience.
Then, after obtaining a dowry such as no Greek had ever obtained before, he behaved in so profligate a fashion, bringing mistresses, slave and free, into the bridal house, that he drove his wife, who was a decent woman, to present herself before the Archon, as she was legally entitled to do, and divorce him.
But I do ask you to preside over our speeches in a fair and impartial manner, and one and all to act as Archons.
Constitution of the Athenians
The chief eponymous archon, responsible for family law suits, festival production, and processions.
the archon exacts it from the owners of the lands in which the sacred olives are, three half-pints from each stump.
The archon, then, collecting what is produced in his year, hands it over to the treasurers on the Acropolis, and he cannot go up to the Areopagus before he has handed over all to the treasurers.
The archon, as soon as he has entered office, first proclaims that whatever anyone held before his entering office, he shall hold and possess until the end of his term.
Against Androtion
Athenian officials used in the example of legal procedures for theft.
Guide the Archons to him, and they will do the rest.
Against Aristogeiton I
Athenian officials whose registers record legal disabilities or debts.
Debarred by every right that holds good in Athens, by the decisions of three tribunals, by the registers of the archons and of the collectors of taxes, by the indictment for wrongful entry in which you yourself are the plaintiff, curbed, I might almost say, by chains of steel, you wriggle and force your way through all and imagine that by weaving excuses and trumping up false charges you can overt …
Against Macartatus
Athenian magistrates responsible for suits, reports, protection of orphans and heiresses, and bringing serious offenders before court.
And suits concerning these matters shall be brought before the archons, according as they severally have jurisdiction.
Let the archon take charge of orphans and of heiresses and of families that are becoming extinct, and of all women who remain in the houses of their deceased husbands, declaring that they are pregnant.
Against Stephanus I
Athenian officials in whose custody the counter-plea is kept.
What is the counter-plea in the custody of the archons?
Ancient Law
Early Athenian magistrates who punished offences as torts.
The primitive penal law of Athens entrusted the castigation of offences partly to the Archons, who seem to have punished them as torts, and partly to the Senate of Areopagus, which punished them as sins.
On The Estate of Apollodorus
The Athenian civic office charged by law with preventing the extinction of family lines, invoked as the public counterpart to private adoption.
And there is not merely a personal feeling in favor of this course, but the state has taken public measures to secure that it shall be followed, since by law it entrusts the archon with the duty of preventing families from being extinguished.