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Headword: *)ekklhsi/a kuri/a
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.
Greek Original:
*)ekklhsi/a kuri/a: ou(/tw le/getai kuri/a, e)n h(=| e)ku/roun ta\ yhfi/smata. ei)si\ de\ no/mimoi e)kklhsi/ai, ai( lego/menai ku/riai, trei=s tou= mhno\s *)aqh/nhsin, h( prw/th kai\ h( i# kai\ h( triaka/s. ei)si\ de\ kai\ prosklhtoi=s e)nago/menai kata/ tina e)pei/gonta pra/gmata. ai( me\n ou)=n no/mimoi kai\ w(risme/nai ku/rioi kalou=ntai, ai( de\ pro\s to\ katepei=gon sunago/menai su/gklhtoi.
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.
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; law; politics
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 12 August 1999@18:46:54.
Vetted by:
David Mirhady on 4 January 2000@15:47:11.
Elizabeth Vandiver on 21 January 2000@16:02:41.
David Whitehead (rearranged notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 16 February 2003@11:03:43.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and comsetics) on 6 August 2012@07:20:02.
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