The Ephors of Sparta
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
170, compares also the Ephors of Sparta.
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The board of Spartan magistrates who authorize the Ionian expedition after Alcibiades's persuasion.
He, then, having prevailed on the rest of the ephors, as well as Endius, put out to sea with the five ships, in company with Chalcideus the Lacedaemonian, and they proceeded on their voyage with all speed.
When Alcibiades knew this, he again persuaded Endius and the rest of the ephors not to shrink from the expedition;
For Alcibiades was also co-operating with them, being the hereditary and very intimate friend of Endius, one of the ephors;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The Ephors of Sparta, invoked comparatively as an analogy to the twenty-five barons' oversight function.
170, compares also the Ephors of Sparta.