(The name of king was given in the Athenian democracy to the magistrate who exercised those spiritual functions which in the monarchical times had belonged to the sovereign.
His court took cognisance of offences against the religion of the state.) ALCIBIADES.

Never fear: there is not a sycophant in Attica who would dare to breathe a word against me, for the golden plane-tree of the great king.

(See Herodotus, viii.

28.) HIPPOMACHUS.

That plane-tree-- ALCIBIADES.