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Headword:
Ephoroi
Adler number: epsilon,3955
Translated headword: ephors
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Pericles, having persuaded the Spartans' Ephors with bribes in the best interests of the city [sc. of
Athens], did not record this in his accounts, as though it were unmentionable and bringing great shame to those who had been involved in bribe-taking; he did nevertheless put on record that the money had been spent 'on the necessary'."[1]
And elsewhere: "the people of
Heraclea fell into serious factional conflict. Subsequently, wishing to return to amity and become reconciled they chose Klearchos ephor to return them to harmony".[2]
And elsewhere: "he [Apollonius] wrote to the ephors to proclaim in public the removal of pitch from the baths and the expulsion of the hair-pluckers in order to restore the old ways".[3]
Greek Original:Ephoroi: Perikleês tous Ephorous tôn Spartiatôn sumpeisas epi tôi tês poleôs sumpheronti chrêmasi touto men tois logois ouk anegrapsen, hôs an aporrêton huparchon kai pollên aischunên tois dôrodokêsasi pheron: es mentoi to deon anagegraphen auta anêlôsthai. kai authis: hoi de Hêrakleôtai empiptousin es stasin bareian. eita epanelthein es philian kai sumbibaseis boulomenoi proairountai ephoron tês authis homonoias ton Klearchon. kai authis: ho de pros tous ephorous egrapsen, hôs ekeinous kêrugma poiêsasthai dêmosiai tên te pittan tôn balaneiôn exairountas kai tas paratiltrias exelaunontas es to archaion apokathistasthai.
Notes:
[1] See also
delta 243. In his commentary to
Aristophanes'
Clouds (Oxford, 1968) K.J. Dover explained in reference to line 859 (web address 1) that 'When Pericles' accounts came up for scrutiny after the crushing of the Euboean revolt in 445 [BCE], it was seen that he had entered ten talents as spent
ei)s to\ de/on: the Assembly, knowing that this sum had been given as a bribe to bring about the Spartan king's withdrawal of his army from Attica, wisely asked no questions'. The incident (
delta 243) is described by
Plutarch in his
Life of Pericles 22-23 (web address 2). See also
Thucydides 1.114.2 (web address 3) with A.W. Gomme's comments; 2.21.1 (web address 4) and de Ste. Croix [below] 198-200. The source of the present quotation may be
Ephorus (cf. FGrH70 F193) or perhaps
Theophrastus'
Nomoi (cf.
Plutarch,
Life of Pericles 23.1), both of whom are cited by the Suda. For
Sparta's ephors see also
epsilon 3956.
[2] Part of
Aelian fr. 89 Domingo-Forasté (86 Hercher). See also
kappa 1714. Ephors were magistrates at
Heraclea on the Black Sea.
[3]
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.27. The use of pitch strips (similar to modern depilatory strips) and male hair removal was regarded as effeminate conduct: cf.
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 536. See also
pi 1657,
phi 366.
Reference:
de Ste. Croix, G.E.M., The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. London: Duckworth, 1972
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Web address 2,
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Translated by: Tony Natoli on 8 January 2003@01:23:42.
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