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σύγ-κλητος , ον,
A.called together, summoned, “στράτευμα” E.IA 301 (lyr.); “σύγκλητον τήνδε γερόντων . . λέσχην” S.Ant.160 (anap.); οἱ ς. invited guests, Poll.6.12.
II. ς. ἐκκλησία at Athens, an assembly specially summoned, opp. κυρία, Decr. ap. D.18.37, cf. 73, IG22.945.5 (ii B.C.).
2. generally, σύγκλητος (sc. βουλή), ἡ, summoned council, opp. ἐκκλησία, Arist.Pol.1275b8; at Carthage, Plb.10.18.1; in the Achaean League, Id.29.24.6, IG7.411.13 (Oropus, ii B.C.); freq. of the Roman Senate, Plb.21.1.3, al., Str.3.4.20, D.S.4.83, etc., and in Inscrr., as SIG591.68 (Lampsacus, ii B.C.), 785.12 (Chios, i A.D.), etc.; personified, θεὸς
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 37
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    • Sophocles, Antigone, 160
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.4.20
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