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ἐκκλησι-άζω , fut. -άσω Ar.Ec.161, Isoc.8.2 : impf.
A.“ἠκκλησίαζον” D.18.265,19.60; also “ἐκκλησίαζον” Lys.12.73 codd., but usu. with irreg. augm., as if the Verb were a compd. of ἐκ and Κλησιάζω, impf. “ἐξεκλησίαζον” Lys.13.73,76 : aor. “ἐξεκλησίασα” Th.8.93, D.21.193 (freq. with vv.ll. ἐξεκκλησίαζον, ἐξεκκλησίασα) :—Med., ἐξεκκλησιάσατο, = ἀγορήσατο, Hsch.s.h.v.:—hold an assembly, debate therein, X.Ath.1.9,Ar.Av.1027, X.An.5.6.37 ; “περί τινος” Th.7.2, Isoc. 8.2 ; “περί μου ἐπ᾽ ὀλέθρῳ” Ar.Th.84 ; “ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως” Isoc.8.13 ; τοιαῦτα ἐκκλησιάσαντες having thus deliberated, Th.8.77; “ἐ. τὰς ἀναγκαίας ἐκκλησίας” Arist.Pol.1292b28.
2. to be a member of the Assembly, ἐ. ἀπὸ τιμήματος οὐδενός ib.1294b3.
II. trans., summon to an assembly, convene, “τοὺς αὑτοῦ στρατιώτας” Aen.Tact.9.1 ; “λαόν” D.S.21.16 ; “συναγωγήν” LXXLe.8.3,al. :—Pass., to be called together,ib.Je.33(26).9, al.
2. metaph., τινὰ πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐ. summon considerations before one's mind, Eun.Hist.p.210D.
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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