Meanings
- historicalnot comparablePertaining to the curial class from which were drawn councils in Ancient Greece.
A bouleutic inscription of 336/5 BC, however, provides argument for Phocion's long sought demotic.
2014, Lawrence A. Tritle, Phocion the Good, →ISBN, page 372 more examples
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.
2006, Mogens Herman Hansen, Studies in the Population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria, →ISBN, page 29The 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.
2013, Alan H. Sommerstein, Andrew James Bayliss, Oath and State in Ancient Greece, →ISBN, page 41
Origin
- Ancient Greekβουλευτικός
- Englishbouleutic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλευτικός (bouleutikós), ultimately from βουλή (boulḗ).
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