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Now the new pro-bouleutic, or pre-considering, senate consisted of four hundred members, -- one hundred from each of the tribes: persons not included in any gens or phratry could therefore have had no access to it.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

As it appears that Solon, while constituting the popular assembly with its pro-bouleutic senate, had no jealousy of the senate of

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

He implored the people to grant him a guard, and at the moment when their sympathies were freshly aroused both in his favor and against his supposed assassins, Aristo proposed formally to the ecclesia (the pro-bouleutic senate, being composed of friends of Pisistratus, had previously authorized the proposition) that a company of fifty club-men should be assigned as a permanent body-guard for the defence of Pisistratus.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

The new force, through which this protection was carried into effect, was the public assembly called _Heliæa_, regularized and armed with enlarged prerogatives and further strengthened by its indispensable ally -- the pro-bouleutic, or pre-considering, senate.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

He created the pro-bouleutic, or pre-considering senate, with intimate and especial reference to the public assembly -- to prepare matters for its discussion, to convoke and superintend its meetings, and to insure the execution of its decrees.

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