Archon vs Thesmothete - What's the difference?
archon | thesmothete |
A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
:* 1980 : Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth. (Burgess, Earthly Powers )
A ruler, head of state or other leader.
:* 1922 : But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock. (Joyce, Ulysses )
(gnosticism) A supernatural being subordinate to the Demiurge.