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Evening had already fallen when a messenger arrived bringing to the presiding councillors¹ the news that Elatea had been taken. They were sitting at supper, but they instantly rose from table, cleared the booths in the marketplace of their occupants, and unfolded the hurdles,² while others summoned the commanders and ordered the attendance of the trumpeter. The commotion spread through the whole city. At daybreak on the morrow the presidents summoned the Council to the Council House, and the citizens flocked to the place of assembly. Before the Council could introduce the business and prepare the agenda, the whole body of citizens had taken their places on the hill.

1 presiding councillors: the fifty representatives on the Council of that one of the ten tribes within whose term of administrative duty the meeting fell.

2 unfolded the hurdles: they were tied together hinge-wise, and, when unfolded, formed barriers, either to keep out strangers （Dem. 59.90） or to block streets leading from the marketplace elsewhere than to the Pnyx, where the assembly met （Schol. on Aristoph. Ach. 22）. Unfolded is a conjectural reading derived from the scholium cited; but no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming of the reading of all MSS., set fire to the hurdles.

Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.

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Commentary references to this page (4):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 411
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 152
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 169-180
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 174
Cross-references to this page (5):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE PARTICIPLE
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators, Demosthenes
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Demosthenes, Philippic 2, Dem. 6 14
- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 16.84
Cross-references in notes from this page (2):
- Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 90
- Aristophanes, Acharnians, 22
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (12):
- LSJ, ἄνω
- LSJ, ἀγγέλλω
- LSJ, βουλ-ευτήριον
- LSJ, ἐξέργω
- LSJ, ἐκ
- LSJ, γέρρον
- LSJ, κάθημαι
- LSJ, κατά
- LSJ, μεταξύ
- LSJ, πνέω
- LSJ, σκην-ή
- LSJ, χρημα^τ-ίζω

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