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... citizens who had held the dignity of Archon , took charge of all trials for wilful murder , and was considered supreme . The Ephetæ ( so called ὅτι ἐφιᾶσι τῷ ἀνδροφόνῳ τὸν åvdpnλáτnv ) were fifty - one men , of noble birth and ...
... citizens who had held the dignity of Archon , took charge of all trials for wilful murder , and was considered supreme . The Ephetæ ( so called ὅτι ἐφιᾶσι τῷ ἀνδροφόνῳ τὸν åvdpnλáτnv ) were fifty - one men , of noble birth and ...
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... citizens who had worthily discharged the office of Archon . The members therefore were not taken from the many , but the few ; not elected , but succeeding to their new dignity , at the end of every year , by a kind of hereditary right ...
... citizens who had worthily discharged the office of Archon . The members therefore were not taken from the many , but the few ; not elected , but succeeding to their new dignity , at the end of every year , by a kind of hereditary right ...
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... citizens still continued to regard it , almost in spite of themselves , rendered this impossible . " It was invested , " says Grote ( vol . v . p . 481 ) , " with a kind of religious respect , and believed to possess mysterious ...
... citizens still continued to regard it , almost in spite of themselves , rendered this impossible . " It was invested , " says Grote ( vol . v . p . 481 ) , " with a kind of religious respect , and believed to possess mysterious ...
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... citizens would have lost all respect for it , as an obsolete power ; ( but Lysias ( Cæd . Erat . c . ii . p . 126 ) expressly tells us that they did respect it , just before the establishment of the Thirty ; ) nor would it have been ...
... citizens would have lost all respect for it , as an obsolete power ; ( but Lysias ( Cæd . Erat . c . ii . p . 126 ) expressly tells us that they did respect it , just before the establishment of the Thirty ; ) nor would it have been ...
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... citizens . Probably he may have been averse to the diminution of privileges carried by Ephialtes ; but even this is not quite certain , for he puts forward the Areopagus prominently and specially as a tribunal for homicide , exercising ...
... citizens . Probably he may have been averse to the diminution of privileges carried by Ephialtes ; but even this is not quite certain , for he puts forward the Areopagus prominently and specially as a tribunal for homicide , exercising ...
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