ἐφόρων (ephoron)

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

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.85.3: καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀρχίδαμος τοιαῦτα εἶπεν· παρελθὼν δὲ Σθενελαΐδας τελευταῖος, εἷς τῶν ἐφόρων τότε ὤν, ἔλεξεν [τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ] ὧδε.

Plutarch, Numa 16.4: … χώραν διεῖλεν, ἃ πάγους προσηγόρευσε, καὶ καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐπισκόπους ἔταξε καὶ περιπόλους, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ αὐτὸς ἐφορῶν καὶ τεκμαιρόμενος ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων τοὺς τρόπους τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺς μὲν εἰς τιμὰς καὶ πίστεις ἀνῆγε, τοὺς δὲ ῥᾳθύμο …

Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit 27: … ιν ἤδη τὴν, τοῦ σώματος ἐξημαυρωμένος δύναμιν καὶ τὰ πολλὰ κλινήρης διημερεύων, μεταπεμπομένων εἰς ἀγορὰν τῶν Ἐφόρων, ὥρμησε μὲν ἐξαναστὰς βαδίζειν, μόλις καὶ χαλεπῶς προερχόμενος, εἶτα παιδαρίοις ἐντυχὼν καθʼ ὁδόν, ἠρώτησεν, …

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.