arches

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All those years of running from city to city one step ahead of the Usurper's knives, pleading for help from archons and princes and magisters, buying our food with flattery.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The nine archons, representing the power of the state, managed nearly all of its affairs, and retained likewise their seats in the council of nobles.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

The right to elect and depose the archons.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich

They consisted in holding open court on certain matters appealed to them from the archons.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

The archons had ordered the hucksters’ booths to be burned, as a signal to all Attica that the worst had befallen.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns