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Although, Lycurgus had, in this manner, used all the qualifications possible in the constitution of his commonwealth, yet those who succeeded him found the oligarchical element still so strong and dominant, and, to check its high temper and its violence, put, as Plato says, a bit in its mouth, which was the power of the ephoroi, established hundred and thirty years after the death of Lycurgus.
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Pausanias was so slow in comprehending situations that he could not realize the approach of his end until he was directly informed by one of the ephoroi: […]
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As a theorist, however, he recommends the constitution of a body of superior subjects who would have the task of reining in the will of the king; he argues for the value in their times of the Ephoroi of ancient Sparta.
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[…] similarly to the archons and ephoroses hallmarked a certain era of their science.
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