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ἐκκλησί-α , ἡ, （ἔκκλητος）
A.assembly duly summoned, less general than σύλλογος, Th.2.22, Pl.Grg.456b, etc. ; applied to the Homeric Assemblies, Arist.Pol.1285a11 ; to the Samian Assembly, Hdt.3.142 ; to the Spartan, Th.1.87 ; to the meeting of the Amphictyons at Delphi, Aeschin.3.124 ; at Athens, ἐ. κύριαι, opp. σύγκλητοι, Arist.Ath.43.4 ; κυρία ἐ., at Amorgos, IG12(7).237.46 ; ἐ. συναγείρειν, συνάγειν, συλλέγειν, ἀθροίζειν, call an assembly, Hdt.3.142, Th.2.60, 8.97, X.HG1.6.8 ; “ἐ. ποιεῖν” Ar.Eq.746, Th.1.139,al. ; “ἐ. ποιεῖν τινί” Ar.Ach.169 ; “διδόναι τινί” Plb.4.34.6 ; ἐ. γίγνεται an assembly is held, Th.6.8 ; “καταστάσης ἐ.” Id.1.31 ; “ἦν ἐ. τοῖς στρατηγοῖς” And.1.2 ; ἐ. διαλύειν, ἀναστῆσαι, dissolve it, Th.8.69 (Pass.),X.HG2.4.42 ; “ἀφιέναι” Plu.TG16 ; ἐ. ἀνεβλήθη was adjourned, Th.5.45 ; “ἐ. περί τινος” Ar. Av.1030, etc.
2.=Lat. Comitia, ἐ. λοχῖτις, φρατρική, = Comitia Centuriata, Curiata, D.H.4.20.
3. = ψήφισμα, ἀναγιγνωσκομένης ἐ. Philostr.VS2.1.11.
II. in LXX, the Jewish congregation, De. 31.30,al.
2. in NT, the Church, as a body of Christians, Ev.Matt. 16.18, 1 Ep.Cor.11.22 ; “ἡ κατ᾽ οἶκόν τινος ἐ.” Ep.Rom.16.5 ; as a building, Cod.Just.1.1.5 Intr., etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (24):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 124
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 2
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1030
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 746
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.142
    • New Testament, Romans, 16.5
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 11.22
    • Plato, Gorgias, 456b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.22
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.139
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.31
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.87
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.60
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.45
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.8
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.69
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.97
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.6.8
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.4.42
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.34.6
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 169
    • New Testament, Matthew, 16.18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.20
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.1.11
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