With the Cretan cosmimay be compared the magistrates named prytanes, who in Corinth, as well as in other states, succeeded in the place of the kings.
In the time of Aristotle the power of the cosmihad acquired a despotic character.
This conjecture is still further confirmed when we remember that the cosmi were chosen from particular families, rather according to their rank than their personal merits.
It included all the citizens, strictly so called; and likewise had only power to answer the decree of the chief officers (cosmi or gerontes) in the negative or affirmative.
The cosmi of Crete are compared by Aristotle, Ephorus and Cicero, with the ephors of Lacedaemon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cosmi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
