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Definition of archon in English: archonnoun ˈɑːkənˈɑrkɑn Each of the nine chief magistrates in ancient Athens. (古雅典的)行政长官,执政官 Example sentencesExamples - He writes, ‘the meaning of ‘archive,’ its only meaning, comes to it from the Greek arkheion: initially a house, a domicile, an address, the residence of the superior magistrates, the archons, those who commanded’ .
- At the beginning of every year, dramatists submitted their plays to the archon, or chief magistrate.
- Interestingly, Meritt initially raised 412/1 as a possibility, restoring Kallias as the archon, an individual whose demotic matched that preserved on fragment 1, Skambonides.
- In his role as archon, Solon cancelled all agricultural debts and announced that all slaves were free.
Derivativesnoun After the war, Aristides was instrumental in making the archonships open to all male citizens. Example sentencesExamples - Epicurus died in the second year of the 127th Olympiad, in the archonship of Pytharatus, at the age of 72.
- This took place in the archonship of Hegesias, five years after the first establishment of his rule.
- His popular support and his membership to the council of the Areopagus, following his archonship in 525, probably gave Cleisthenes the authority to begin to install the democratic system.
- In addition, anyone convicted of dishonouring his parents could be struck off the citizen-lists and was considered automatically disqualified from an archonship, or from the right to address the people.
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek arkhōn 'ruler', noun use of the present participle of arkhein 'to rule'. Definition of archon in US English: archonnounˈɑrkɑnˈärkän Each of the nine chief magistrates in ancient Athens. (古雅典的)行政长官,执政官 Example sentencesExamples - He writes, ‘the meaning of ‘archive,’ its only meaning, comes to it from the Greek arkheion: initially a house, a domicile, an address, the residence of the superior magistrates, the archons, those who commanded’ .
- At the beginning of every year, dramatists submitted their plays to the archon, or chief magistrate.
- In his role as archon, Solon cancelled all agricultural debts and announced that all slaves were free.
- Interestingly, Meritt initially raised 412/1 as a possibility, restoring Kallias as the archon, an individual whose demotic matched that preserved on fragment 1, Skambonides.
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek arkhōn ‘ruler’, noun use of the present participle of arkhein ‘to rule’. |