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tbeelAers asodngst the nobles, Bitting under
theiT king lis president, which decided' on pnb-
lie basiuess and judicial matters, frequently
h connexion with, but apparently not sobject
to an agm-ttf or meeting of the freemen of the
state. [Agora.] This f<nin of gorerament,
thoa|h It ezistea for some time in the Ionian,
Aeohan, and Achaetm stateey was at last
wholly abolished in these states. Among the
Dorians, howoTer, especially among the Spar-
tans, th^ was not the case, for they retamed
the kingly power of the Heracleidae, in con-
jvfflction with the Cfer&uHa or assembly o( el-
ders, of which the kingawere membei^ [Gs-
KovstA.] At Athens, on the contrary, the
h&vile was a representative, and in most re-
^>eets a popular body (dn^corticdv).
