[98] Plutarch, Lycurgus, 26.
[99] Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, third edition, article Ephori, where proofs are given.
[100] For Cleomenes, see Herodotus VI. 73-82: for Pausanias, Thucydides I. 131. 3: for the sending of the great armament, Herodotus IX. chapters 10, 11, 28: and above, page 38.
[101] Aristotle, Politics II. 9. 19 γίγνονται ἐκ τοῦ δήμου πάντες(they are all created from the people). Ibid. II. 9. 23 (αἱρετὴν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξ ἁπάντων, (the office is filled by election from the whole body).
[102] Aristotle, Politics II. 10. 6.
[103] Xenophon, Hellenica II. 3. §§ 9 and 10.
[104] The ambassadors sent by the Athenians in their extreme distress during the occupation of Athens by Mardonius were received by the Ephors and were kept waiting ten days for an answer. Herodotus IX. 7-11.
[105] For example in 432 B.C. Thucydides I. 85-87.
[106] For the powers of the kings in time of peace see Herodotus VI. 57.
[107] Xenophon De Rep. Lac. 13. § 5.