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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Eph`ori

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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E . overseers), the name of five magistrates annually elected in ancient Sparta from among the people as a countercheck to the authority of the kings and the senate; had originally to see to the execution of justice and the education of youth; their authority, which resembled that of the tribunes in Rome, was at last destroyed in 225 B.C.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Eph`ori'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​e/ephori.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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