The corpus record — Latin

Ephorus2

a member of a well-known body of Spartan magistrates

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pausanias 7 · 79.37/10k
Lysander 2 · 37.04/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Orator 4 · 2.16/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ĕphŏrus — Lewis & Short

ĕphŏrus, i (

I nom. plur. ephoroe = e)/foroi, Val. Max. 1, 41, ext. 8), m., = e)/foros, a member of a well-known body of Spartan magistrates, the Ephori, Cic. Leg. 3, 7, 16; id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100; id. Off. 2, 23; Nep. Them. 7, 2; id. Ages. 4.

2. ĕphŏrus — Lewis & Short

ĕphŏrus, i, m., = *)/eforos,

I a celebrated Greek historian of Cumae, a disciple of Isocrates, Cic. de Or. 2, 13 fin.; 23; id. Brut. 56, 204; id. Or. 51, 172; Quint. 9, 4, 87 al.

In the wild

Ephori Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.7.p66
Ephorus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.31.p5
Ephorus Cicero, De Oratore 2.57
Ephoro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.6.p51
Ephoro Cicero, De Oratore 3.36
ephoris Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias 4

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.