Ephori (Eph`ori) (i.e. overseers), the name of five magistrates annually elected in ancient Sparta from among the people as a countercheck to the authority of the kings and the senate; had originally to see to the execution of justice and the education of youth; their authority, which resembled that of the tribunes in Rome, was at last destroyed in 225 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ephod * Ephraem Syrus