συνέδριον
τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν ἄνευ νοῦ ἃ δοκεῖ καὶ σὺ ὁμολογεῖς κακὸν εἶναι: ἢ οὔ → but doing what one thinks fit without intelligence is—as you yourself admit, do you not?—an evil
English (LSJ)
τό,
A council, σ. κατασκευάζειν, συνάγειν, Pl.Prt.317d, Aeschin.3.89; ὁμογνώμονες τοῦ σ. πάντες IG14.952.28 (Acragas, iii B.C.); meeting, μεταπεμφθέντων εἰς κοινὸν σ. τῶν . . δεκανῶν PTeb.27.31 (ii B.C.); of a council of war, X.HG1.1.31, etc.; of the Areopagus, Aeschin.1.91, Din.1.54; τὰ σ., of the 600 together with the Areopagus, IG22.3640; of a board of trade, D.58.8; of the Roman Senate, Plb.1.11.1, etc.; the Carthaginian Senate, Id.1.31.8; the Jewish Sanhedrin, Ev.Matt.5.22, etc. (also of local Councils attached to synagogues, ib.10.17, Ev.Marc.13.9, Cod.Just.1.9.17); the Senate at Constantinople, Lib.Or.20.37; τὸ σεμνότατον σ. τῆς γερουσίας, at Thasos, IG12(8).388; τὸ σ. σ. τῶν γερόντων IGRom.4.782 (Apamea); τὸ χωρίον ἐν ᾧ σ. ἦν αὐτῷ τῶν πολιτῶν Gal.6.332; freq. of a congress of Allies or Confederates, Hdt.8.56,75, X.HG7.1.39, D.18.22, Aeschin. 2.70, 3.58, D.S.16.89, etc.; τὸ σ. τῶν Ἑλλάνων IG12(3).1259.4 (Smyrna, iv B.C.); ἁμῶν (sc. τῶν Ἀμφικτιόνων) OGI234.17 (Delph., iii B.C.), cf. SIG613.10 (ibid., ii B.C.); τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν σ. Plu.Arist. 19. 2 place of meeting, council-chamber, Hdt.8.79, X.HG2.4.23, POxy.717.8 (i B.C.); ἐν σ. in court, Lys.9.6; ἐνεπρήσθη τὰ σ. τῶν Πυθαγορείων Plb.2.39.1.
