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What does ephor mean?

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Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.
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He also gave out that he intended to remain in office as ephor for the next year as well.
The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings.
With these words he, as ephor, himself put the question to the assembly of the Lacedaemonians.
Yet it was the Spartan ephor Sthenelaidas, who comes off as an angry demagogue, who got the Corinthian message completely.
In 560 he acted as ephor, an office which he is even said to have founded.
Houston-based Ephor Group and First Analysis of Chicago are co-funding the growth financing.

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