Words Starting EP & Ending S

• The governor or prefect of a province.

• The ruler of an eparchy.

• The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.

• an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel

• A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.

• (by extension) A young man; a youth.

• the person for whom something is named

• the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.

• One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.

• (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.