Case 90 contains the coffin of the archon of Thebes, Soter, with the hawk of the sun on the top, and the judgment scenes of the Amenti on the sides.
With fear and trembling now the great Archontoo acknowledged his error, repented of this self-exaltation and with the whole Ogdoas rejoiced in the scheme of salvation.
Through him also the son of the second Archon is enlightened, and he instructs his father, who now as the God of the Old Testament prepares the way for the development of salvation by the law and prophecy.
All that had there been said about the great Archon must now be attributed to the Supreme God, the Pater innatus, while the inferior archon might keep his place as ruler of the lowest planetary heaven.
By these ever-memorable enactments, all acts done prior to the nomination of the archon Eukleidês and his colleagues, in the summer of 403 B.
The first archon now drawn was Eukleidês, who gave his name to this memorable year; a year never afterwards forgotten by Athenians.
The conflict of the orders was not allayed until both parties agreed in choosing Solon as mediator and as archon (594 B.
The third archon, the polemarch, discharged in relation to resident aliens all such legal duties as were discharged by the chief archon in relation to citizens (c.
The Archon Perseus," he said, "the brother of Johannes.
Do you know that, last night, one of my best leaders, Perseus the archon and the brother of Johannes here, left the city and has not been seen since?
Down fell a beam of rotten oak; The chair beneath the Archon broke; And all the furniture around Appeared at once to be unsound.
Can it be," the Archon pondered, "That some little god hath wandered From his home within the skies, To a dreary spot like this?
It is Plutarch, however, who mentions the presence of Kabeirichus the archon at the banquet, and the curious Theban custom that the archon during his year of office never left out of his hand the consecrated spear.
But the other archon Kalamion, is unknown in the Fasti of Athens.
In historical times the ephors were five in number, the first of them giving his name to the year, like the eponymous archon at Athens.
At Athens the chief archon of the year was known as the [Greek: archon eponymos], as the year was known by his name.
In the inmost shrine of the temple a mystic sacrifice for the welfare of the State was offered by the Basilissa and the fourteen ladies of honor expressly appointed by the archon for this purpose.
Phanippus, archon at Athens in the year of Marathon, ii.
And, moreover, Idomeneus says, that Aristides was not made archon by the lot of the bean, but the free election of the people.
So they sent him a ship to Aegina, and he landed at the port of Piraeus, where he was met and joyfully received by all the citizens, not so much as an Archonor a priest staying behind.
Now the Cylonian pollution had a long while disturbed the commonwealth, ever since the time when Megacles the archon persuaded the conspirators with Cylon that took sanctuary in Minerva's temple to come down and stand to a fair trial.
The office of archon was perhaps introduced together with the democracy;(791) the civil authority of the generals existed in many states in later times.
Thus in Athens also, the same duty had been transferred from the ancient kings to the archon eponymus, who accordingly had the superintendence, and a species of guardianship over all heiresses and orphans.
Immediately after those events, Aristeides was chosen as Archon Eponymus, that is, the archon who gives his name to the year.
Now, if he was archon after the battle of Platæa, as Demetrius himself admits, it is highly probable that his great reputation after such glorious successes may have obtained for him an office usually reserved for men of wealth.
Be that as it may, I am more than ever puzzled since I have studied the records of What the Archon Did.
Of course, I am not putting forward "What the Archon Did" as an example to the Archons who Didn't of to-day.
This was the letter:-- "Pericles the Archon to Euripides the Poet, Greetings.
The Great Archon was standing quietly beside Anaxagoras, and neither one gave any sign of being impressed by the oracle.
He is Overseer on the Farm of Pericles, Archon of Athens.
That is exactly what I have been doing myself, and I would wager my chance of being Archon next year, a very serious stake indeed, that we have had the same subject for our thoughts.
Solon should be elected archonand entrusted with power to deal with the existing discontents and to make a new form of government.
The Archon of Plataeae might not touch iron; but once a year, at the annual commemoration of the men who fell at the battle of Plataeae, he was allowed to carry a sword wherewith to sacrifice a bull.
Therefore we may now fairly ask, May not the King of the Wood have had an origin like that which a probable tradition assigns to the Sacrificial King of Rome and the King Archon of Athens?
He had been Archon at the time of the battle of Marathon.
He defended himself before a court of heliasts, all of whom had been initiated into the Mysteries, the president of the court being the Archon Basileus.
The indictment was lodged by Cephisius, the chief prosecutor, with the Archon Basileus, during the celebration of the Greater Mysteries and while Andocides was still at Eleusis.
On this day the Archon Basileus presided over all the cults of the city, and assembled the people at a place known as the Poikile Stoa.
