bouleutic

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλευτικός (bouleutikós), ultimately from βουλή (boulḗ).

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Adjective

bouleutic (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Pertaining to the curial class from which were drawn councils in Ancient Greece.
    • 2006, Mogens Herman Hansen, Studies in the Population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria, →ISBN, page 29:
      If - as is commonly believed - they were not revised until 307/6, a significant discrepancy between population and bouleutic quota must have developed in the course of two centuries during which Athens experienced dramatic expansions and contractions of its population.
    • 2013, Alan H. Sommerstein, Andrew James Bayliss, Oath and State in Ancient Greece, →ISBN, page 41:
      The fact that the Ath.Pol. (22.2-3) states that the original bouleutic oath instituted in the archonship of Hermocreon (502/1 BC?) was “still in use” in the fourth century would appear to clash with the new clauses that were added to the oath throughout the fifth century.
    • 2014, Lawrence A. Tritle, Phocion the Good, →ISBN, page 37:
      A bouleutic inscription of 336/5 BC, however, provides argument for Phocion's long sought demotic.

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