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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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Upon this the same ephor asked him whether he repented of what he had done.
With these words he, as ephor, himself put the question to the assembly of the Lacedaemonians.
Chilo, the Lacedaemonian ephor, is placed also among the seven.
The ephor was a magistrate of Sparta who contained and controlled the kings.
In 560 he acted as ephor, an office which he is even said to have founded.
Fixed antiquities must be reported by the discoverer to the ephor General or one of the ephors of antiquities or other official.

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