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Headword:
Ekklêsia
kuria
Adler number: epsilon,470
Translated headword: principal assembly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The
ekklesia [assembly][1] in which they used to confirm [make
kyrios] the decrees, is called
kyria. There are regular
ekklesiai, those that are called
kyriai, three per month at
Athens, on the first and 10th and 13th days.[2] There are also specially-summoned assemblies[3] called for pressing business. So the
ekklesiai that are regular and whose subject matter is well-defined are called
kyriai, and those that are summoned for urgent business are
synkletoi.
Ekklêsia kuria: houtô legetai kuria, en hêi ekuroun ta psêphismata. eisi de nomimoi ekklêsiai, hai legomenai kuriai, treis tou mênos Athênêsin, hê prôtê kai hê i# kai hê triakas. eisi de kai prosklêtois enagomenai kata tina epeigonta pragmata. hai men oun nomimoi kai hôrismenai kurioi kalountai, hai de pros to katepeigon sunagomenai sunklêtoi.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 19, where the headword phrase occurs (in the genitive case).
[1] cf.
epsilon 471. On the
ekklesiai see generally ?
Aristotle,
Athenaion Politeia 43.3-5, with P.J.
Rhodes,
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981) ad loc. Also M.H. Hansen,
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (Oxford 1991) 125-160.
[2] Sc. of each month. The author seems to be suggesting that there were three
ekklesiai kyriai a month. According to
Ath.Pol. 43.4 there was only one, but some ancient commentators reported the number as three. See
Rhodes (1981) 521.
[3] The translation follows not the transmitted
proskletois, in the dative case, but the (correct) nominative plural of the scholiast.
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 12 August 1999@18:46:54.
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