Council of Five Hundred
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Against Aristogeiton I (Greek)
The Council of the Five Hundred, thanks to this barrier, frail as it is, is master of its own secrets, and no private citizen can enter it.
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
The allotted body of five hundred citizens (fifty per tribe) that administers day-to-day governance and Assembly business
Then, in the archonship of Conon, he stripped from the Council all the added powers through which it had the guardianship of the constitution, and gave some to the Five Hundred, some to the people and the law-courts.
All wondering at what had happened, and afterward the Council of Five Hundred having gathered, Ephialtes and Themistocles accused the Areopagites, and again in the same way before the people, until they stripped away their power.
Those of them who hold the presidency first mess together in the Tholos, receiving money from the city, then they convene both the Council and the Assembly:
Against Aristogeiton I
Athenian council whose secrecy and integrity are protected by legal boundaries.
The Council of the Five Hundred, thanks to this barrier, frail as it is, is master of its own secrets, and no private citizen can enter it.
Against Timocrates
The Athenian council whose oath limits councillors’ power to imprison citizens.
I will give verdict in accordance with the statutes and decrees of the People of Athens and of the Council of Five-hundred.
Solon therefore, wishing to deprive the Council of authority to imprison, included this formula in the Councillors’ oath;
it is merely a phrase in the written oath taken by the Council, to prevent politicians who are in the Council from caballing to commit any citizen to prison.
On the False Embassy
Athenian council invoked as a source of decrees and procedural authority.
You have sworn to give a verdict according to the laws, and to the decrees of the people and of the Council of Five Hundred;
as soon as they detect one of themselves in misconduct, they lay information before the Council and the Assembly.
then the Council must convene an Assembly, but only on a statutory date.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The traditional democratic council of Athens, displaced by the Four Hundred and later demanded to be restored.
The people, however, and the council of five hundred still met notwithstanding, though they discussed nothing that was not approved of by the conspirators, but both the speakers belonged to that party, and the points to be brought forward were previously discussed by them.
When these things had been thus arranged, the Four Hundred, each with dagger concealed on his person, and the hundred and twenty Grecian youths, of whose services they availed themelves wherever any business required to be dispatched, came and presented themselves to the council of Five Hundred, who were in their chamber, and told them to take their pay and go out;
He then dismissed them with an answer from himself, that he did not object to the Five Thousand being in power, but ordered them to depose the Four Hundred, and to establish the council of Five Hundred as before.