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Webster 1913 Edition
Archon
Ar′chon
,Noun.
[L.
archon
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], ruler, chief magistrate, p. pr. of [GREEK] to be first, to rule.] (Antiq.)
One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
– Ar-chon′tic
, Adj.
Webster 1828 Edition
Archon
'ARCHON
,Noun.
The archons in Greece were chief magistrates chosen, after the death of Codrus, from the most illustrious families, to superintend civil and religious concerns. They were nine in number; the first was properly the archon; the second was called king; the third, polemarch, or general of the forces. The other six were called thesmothetae, or legislators.