gerontes

Hence such names as priests, elders, senate, and gerontes.

The Social Contract 2002

Its natural interpretation seems to be that it gives the kings and the gerontes power of veto, limiting preexist - ing rights of the assembly.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

The famous rider to the Rhetra in Plutarch (Lycurgus 6) enjoins that if the demos formulates crooked decisions the gerontes and the kings shall decline to accept them.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

Thus, in Greek, [Greek: oi gerontes oi palaioi memphomestha tê polei] -- and in German:

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

Had they not fallen into the hands of the [Greek: gerontes] or the _flaith_?

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Such men were the Irish _flaith_, gentry under the _RI_, or king, his [Greek: gerontes], each with his _ciniod_, or near kinsmen, to back his cause.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

The [Greek: gerontes], the gentry, the chariot-owning warriors, of whom there are hundreds not of kingly rank in Homer (as in Ireland there were many _flaith_ to one _Ri_) probably, in an informal but tight grip, held considerable lands.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

In an age so advanced from tribal conditions as is the Homeric time -- far advanced beyond ancient tribal Scotland or Ireland -- we conceive that, as in these countries during the tribal period, the [Greek: gerontes] (in

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Not by the people at large, but by the [Greek: gerontes] (IX.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878