Meaning of ekklesiast | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of ecclesiast.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“[O]ur competitors are as weak as ourselves. We save the Thebans, and they save us. It would be worth the while of either to provide pay for the ekklesiasts of the other.”

“Aristotle indicates that ekklesiasts (members of the popular assembly) and legislators are not the same people when he says that “the decision of the legislator is prospective and universal rather than partial, while the ekklesiast and the dikast [lay judge in popular courts] decide about what is immediately present and definite” (Rhet I.1.1354b5-8).”

“The ekklesia clearly was not meeting according to the festival calendar, for any allotted meetings could not have been used up by the third of Mounichion. Ekklesiasts drew pay for attendance; so there must have been a budget which could easily have been exhausted by the meetings in Elaphebolion.”

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