Of the [sc. Athenian] assemblies, some took place outside[1] and by the month;[2] but if anything were to arise suddenly, so that an assembly [meeting needed] to happen, this used to be called a summoned assembly.
Demosthenes [in the speech]
Against Aeschines [sc. uses the phrase].
*su/gklhtos e)kklhsi/a: tw=n e)kklhsiw=n ai( me\n e)/cwqen kai\ meta\ mh=na e)gi/nonto: ei) de/ ti e)cai/fnhs katepei/ceien, w(/ste gene/sqai e)kklhsi/an, au)th\ e)kalei=to su/gklhtos e)kklhsi/a. *dhmosqe/nhs kat' *ai)sxi/nou.
A garbled [see nn.1-2 below] version of Harpokration s.v.
On this phrase see M.H. Hansen,
The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (1991) 134-135, summarising earlier work and reiterating his own insistence that what differentiated a 'summoned' assembly from other meetings was
how it was summoned (e.g. at short notice); it was not, in and of itself, extraordinary in the sense of being supernumerary.
[1] So the transmitted Suda text,
e)/cwqen, but read, with Harpok.,
e)c e)/qous, 'out of custom'.
[2] Read
kata\ mh=na (Harpok.), not the Suda's
meta\ mh=na.
[3]
Demosthenes 19.123: web address 1.
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