Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
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| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| italia | eforo |
| ruotsi | efor |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
- (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.
Esimerkit
- Agesilaus was fined by the Ephories, because he had drawne the hearts and good wills of al his fellow-citizens unto himselfe alone.
- Originally associated with the social system, the agoge (see CAH III.I2, 742), the ephors rose to some constitutional importance when the senior ephor became the eponymous official of the year in 754, perhaps in connexion with the oaths made at the beginning of the year and renewed each month between the kings and the ephors:.
- For basic duties, the ephors convened both the Spartan boulê of kings and elders and the assemblies. In times of war, the ephors were responsible for mustering troops, determining what age groups of soldiers would be sent out to battle, and determining how many would be sent.
- Moreover, as he[Cleomenes] was laying his plans, he was given a sign that he had divine sanction—an ephor told him that he had had a dream in which the ephors’ chairs had been removed and a divine voice told him that this was best for Sparta.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | ephors |
(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
1862 imagining of the ephors
(in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.
Andreas Moustoxydis, who held the title of 'ephor' as director of the National Archaeological Museum on Aigina.
(historical) One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.
A diagram of the Spartan Constitution