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Demosthenes [in the first speech] Against Aphobos [uses the word].[1] Not all the populace, as with us, was divided into symmories at Athens, but only the rich and those able to contribute to the city. At any rate Demosthenes in the [speech] On the Symmories says, speaking of the 1200 richest men: "so out of these I consider it necessary to make 20 symmories, as at present, each containing 60 persons".[2] Hyperides in the [speech] Against Polyeuktos says: "there are fifteen men in each symmory".[3] One need not marvel, though, at how Demosthenes says that the symmory holds 60 men while Hyperides [says] 15; for in the [speech] Against Pasikles he gives the explanation, when he writes as follows: "while the very rich, with 5 or 6 others, were defrauding the city by spending sparingly as trierarchs, these men kept quiet; but after Demosthenes saw this and laid down laws that the 300 be trierarchs, and the trierarchies became burdensome...".[4] That naturalized citizens, too, were enlisted in the symmories Hyperides has shown in the [speech] Against Polyeuktos.[5] Symmorites are those sharing membership of the same symmory. Athenians were first divided into symmories in the year when Nausinikos was archon,[6] as Philochorus [records].[7]

Summoria: Dêmosthenês kata Aphobou. ouch hapan to plêthos, hôsper par' hêmin, diêirêto eis tas summorias Athênêsin, alla monoi hoi plousioi kai eispherein têi polei dunamenoi. ho goun Dêmosthenês en tôi peri tôn summoriôn phêsi peri tôn #22a# kai s1# andrôn tôn plousiôtatôn: ek toinun toutôn oimai dein poiêsai summorias k# naus eisin x# sômata hekastên echousan. Huperidês de en tôi pros Polueukton phêsin: eisi gar en têi summoriai hekastêi ie# andres. ou dei de thaumazein, pôs ho men Dêmosthenês phêsin x# andras echein tên summorian, ho de Huperidês ie#: en gar tôi kata Pasikleous legei tên aitian, graphôn tauti: heôs men hoi plousiôtatoi parakrouomenoi tên polin sun e# kai #2# triêrarchountes metria anêliskon, hêsuchian êgon houtoi: epeidê de tauta kateide Dêmosthenês, nomous ethêke tous t# triêrarchein, kai bareiai gegonasin hai triêrarchiai. hoti de kai hoi dêmopoiêtoi enegraphonto eis tas summorias, dedêlôken Huperidês en tôi kata Polueuktou. summoritai d' eisin hoi tês autês hautois metechontes summorias. diêirethêsan de prôton Athênaioi kata summorias epi Nausinikou archontos, hôs Philochoros.

From Harpokration s.v., closely followed. For the headword see already sigma 1385.
[1] Demosthenes 27.7 (web address 1).
[2] Demosthenes 14.17 (web address 2). The Suda text of this garbles the phrase "as at present", w(/sper nu=n ei)si/; Demosthenes did not mention ships.
[3] Hyperides fr. 159 Jensen.
[4] Hyperides fr. 134 Jensen.
[5] Hyperides fr. 146 Jensen (not the same speech as in n.3 above).
[6] 378/7.
[7] Philochorus FGrH 328 F41.

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