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Can anyone help please with this last query in today's polymath.
32a An elected magistrate in Sparta (8) e?h?r?a? I thought this was ephor which fits the first part of the answer. What then is ?a? ?
Thank you in advance.
Classicalgal
32a An elected magistrate in Sparta (8) e?h?r?a? I thought this was ephor which fits the first part of the answer. What then is ?a? ?
Thank you in advance.
Classicalgal
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For 32a ephorate will 'fill the holes' but is not an answer to the clue -an elected magistrate in Sparta. It's the government of five ephors(elected magistrates) as I'm sure you know.
Thank you once agin for time and trouble taken to reply.
Classicalgal
For 32a ephorate will 'fill the holes' but is not an answer to the clue -an elected magistrate in Sparta. It's the government of five ephors(elected magistrates) as I'm sure you know.
Thank you once agin for time and trouble taken to reply.
Classicalgal
Hi c'gal - may I proffer the following? -
OED (Online) gives -
1. The title given to certain magistrates in various Dorian states, esp. at Sparta, where the five ephors, appointed annually by popular election, exercised a controlling power over the kings.
Hence ... ephoralty, the office of ephor; also, the body of ephors. ephorate, = EPHORALTY in both senses.
OED (Online) gives -
1. The title given to certain magistrates in various Dorian states, esp. at Sparta, where the five ephors, appointed annually by popular election, exercised a controlling power over the kings.
Hence ... ephoralty, the office of ephor; also, the body of ephors. ephorate, = EPHORALTY in both senses.