ἐφόροις (ephorois)

ἐφόροις is an Ancient Greek form of ἔφορος, meaning “overseer, ephor”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἔφορος, “Ephoros — Ephorus (historian); an ephor”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.131.2: … λὴν ἀνεχώρει τὸ δεύτερον ἐς Σπάρτην. καὶ ἐς μὲν τὴν εἱρκτὴν ἐσπίπτει τὸ πρῶτον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐφόρων (ἔξεστι δὲ τοῖς ἐφόροις τὸν βασιλέα δρᾶσαι τοῦτο), ἔπειτα διαπραξάμενος ὕστερον ἐξῆλθε καὶ καθίστησιν ἑαυτὸν ἐς κρίσιν τοῖς βουλομένο …

Plutarch, Alcibiades 28.6: … καὶ τῆς ἄλλης θαλάττης ἐξήλασαν κατὰ κράτος τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους. ἑάλω δὲ καὶ γράμματα λακωνικῶς φράζοντα τοῖς Ἐφόροις τὴν γεγενημένην ἀτυχίαν· ἔρρει τὰ κᾶλα· Μίνδαρος ἀπεσσούα· πεινῶντι τὦνδρες· ἀπορίομες τί χρὴ δρᾶν.

All forms of ἔφορος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.