ἐκκλησί-α, ἡ,
(ἔκκλητος) assembly duly summoned, less general than σύλλογος, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.22, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456b, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; applied to the Homeric Assemblies, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to the Samian Assembly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to the Spartan, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to the meeting of the Amphictyons at Delphi, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; at Athens, ἐ. κύριαι, opposed to σύγκλητοι, Arist.[[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 43.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; κυρία ἐ., at Amorgos, [[ “IG” 12(7).237.46 ] Refs]; ἐ. συναγείρειν, συνάγειν, συλλέγειν, ἀθροίζειν, call an assembly, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.142, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60, 8.97, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.8; ἐ. ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 746, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.139, +others; ἐ. ποιεῖν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 169; διδόναι τινί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.34.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. γίγνεται an assembly is held, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.8; καταστάσης ἐ. [prev. author] 1.31; ἦν ἐ. τοῖς στρατηγοῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. διαλύειν, ἀναστῆσαι, dissolve it, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.69 (_passive_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.42; ἀφιέναι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἀνεβλήθη was adjourned, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.45; ἐ. περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1030, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]