 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - 1794 - 410 pàgines
...office of artbon annual ; and , infbead of one, they created nine arctans. By the latter expedient, they provided againft the too great power of a fingle perfon, as by the former they took away all apprehenfion of the archrnt fetting up for fovereigns. In one word, theyattained... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - 1801 - 456 pàgines
...the office of arebon annual ; and, inftead of one, they created nine arcbons. By the latter expedient they provided againft the too great power of a fingle perfon, as by the former they took away all apprehenfion of the arcbons fetting up for fovereigns. In one word, they attained... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pàgines
...ftill in the family of Codrus. The extinction of the Medontidzat laft left them without reftraint; upon which they not only made this office annual, but created nine archons. By the latter inftitution they provided againit the too great power of a fingle perfon, as by the former they took... | |
 | 1816 - 740 pàgines
...(till in the family of Codrus. The extinction oi" the MedontidiEul laft left thim without reftraint; upon which they not only made this office annual, but created nine archons. By the latter inftitution they provided againft ! he too great power of a i'mgle perfon, as by the former they took... | |
 | 1823 - 894 pàgines
...decennial, but continued it still in the family of Codrus. The extinction of the Medontidae at last left them without restraint; upon which they not only...nine archons. By the latter invention they provided against the too great power of a single person, as by the former they took away all apprehension of... | |
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By the latter invention they providfd againft the too great power of a fingle perfon, as by the former they took away all apprehenfion of the archons having time to eftablim themfelves, fo as to change the conftitution. 