σύγκλητος
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
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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 Σ. OGI479.4 (Dorylaeum, ii A.D.): cf. συγκλείς. 3 πρὸς τὴν σ. dub. sens. in PTeb.5.197 (ii B.C.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 968] zusammengerufen; γερόντων λέσχη, Soph. Ant. 159; στράτευμα, Eur. I. A. 301; ἐκκλησία, Dem. 18, 73, s. ἐκκλησία; – ἡ σύγκλητος, sc. βουλή, die Rathsversammlung, Arist. pol. 3. 1, der Senat, Pol. oft.
