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At that time the ephors and the senators had the greatest power in the state, of whom the former hold office for a year only, while the senators enjoy their dignity for life, their offices having been instituted to restrain the power of the kings, as I have said in my Life of Lycurgus.
1 Therefore from the outset, and from generation to generation, the kings were traditionally at feud and variance with them.
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