Σύγκλητος ἐκκλησία
summoned assembly
Translated by David Whitehead17 Oct 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Of the [sc. Athenian] assemblies, some took place outside1 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].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σύγκλητος ἐκκλησία· τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν αἱ μὲν ἔξωθεν καὶ μετὰ μῆνα ἐγίνοντο· εἰ δέ τι ἐξαίφνης κατεπείξειεν, ὥστε γενέσθαι ἐκκλησίαν, αὐτὴ ἐκαλεῖτο σύγκλητος ἐκκλησία. Δημοσθένης κατ' Αἰσχίνου.
Betacode
*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.
Notes (3)
- 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. - 1So the transmitted Suda text,
e)/cwqen , but read, with Harpok.,e)c e)/qous , 'out of custom'. ↩ - 2Read
kata\ mh=na (Harpok.), not the Suda'smeta\ mh=na . ↩ - 3Demosthenes 19.123: web address 1. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Oct 2010
- tweaked tr and n.1 — David Whitehead
- added link, raised status — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead