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  • When he arrived at the king archon's stoa, Socrates fell into a conversation about reverence with a diviner he knew, Euthyphro

    Socrates Nails, Debra 2005

  • It was the fruit of the long days I had spent in Thrax listening to the proceedings of the archon's court, and still more of those spent sitting in judgment as Autarch, I fear.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • Sparta, and Pythodorus archon at Athens, though the Athenians indeed do not call the year by that archon's name, since he was elected during the oligarchy, but prefer to speak of the year of

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • He addresses Balaustion in a tone of mock deference; banters her on her poetic name, her dignified mien, and the manner in which she has scared his chorus and its followers away; "not indeed that that matters, since the archon's economy and the world's squeamishness will soon abolish it altogether." [

    A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

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