Crossword-Solution: ARCHONS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Only, as you say, promise to make another and better oration, equal in length and entirely new, on the same subject; and I, like the nine Archons, will promise to set up a golden image at Delphi, not only of myself, but of you, and as large as life.

Many enactments are taken from the Athenian; the four classes are borrowed from the constitution of Cleisthenes, which Plato regards as the best form of Athenian government, and the guardians of the law bear a certain resemblance to the archons.

Great care is to be taken of orphans: they are entrusted to the fifteen eldest Guardians of the Law, who are to be 'lawgivers and fathers to them not inferior to their natural fathers,' as at Athens they were entrusted to the Archons.

Let every phratria have inscribed on a whited wall the names of the successive archons by whom the years are reckoned.

The whole political power was vested in the nobles; from them the nine annual archons were taken, and to them alone these magistrates were responsible.