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[ Three of the equals always attended the king’s person in war.
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[ The institution of the ephors has been, with probability, referred to this epoch—chosen at first as the viceroys in the absence of the kings.
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[ Pausanias, Messenics.
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[ See Mueller’s Dorians, vol. i., p. 172, and Clinton’s Fast. Hell. vol. i., p. 183.
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[ For the dates here given of the second Messenian war see Fast. Hell., vol. i., 190, and Appendix 2.