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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK].]

(Gr. Antiq.)

Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

Gerontes pl ‎(plural only)

(historical, Ancient Greece) magistrates in Sparta who, with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority