place. It[4] is reasonable to suppose that it was these same noblest
members of the state who combined[5] to lay the foundation of the
ephorate, after they had come to the conclusion themselves, that of
all the blessings which a state, or an army, or a household, can
enjoy, obedience is the greatest. Since, as they could not but reason,
the greater the power with which men fence about authority, the
greater the fascination it will exercise upon the mind of the citizen,
to the enforcement of obedience.

[1] See Grote, "H. G." v. 516; "Mem." III. v. 18.

[2] Or, reading after L. Dindorf, {eutaxian}, "this world-renowned
orderliness."

[3] Or, "from these facts."

[4] Or, "It was only natural that these same . . ."

[5] Or, "helped." See Aristot. "Pol." v. 11, 3; ii. 9, 1 (Jowett, ii.
224); Plut. "Lycurg." 7, 29; Herod. i. 65; Muller, "Dorians," iii.
7, 5 (vol. ii. p. 125, Eng. tr.)

Accordingly the ephors are competent to punish whomsoever they choose;
they have power to exact fines on the spur of the moment; they have
power to depose magistrates in mid career[6]--nay, actually to
imprison them and bring them to trial on the capital charge. Entrusted
with these vast powers, they do not, as do the rest of states, allow
the magistrates elected to exercise authority as they like, right
through the year of office; but, in the style rather of despotic
monarchs, or presidents of the games, at the first symptom of an