The council was called the boule, which is also in your handout, and that referred to a smaller council of older men, usually, who made decisions that they then would put before the whole, the demos, the whole voting population.

这一委员会叫做古希腊立法会议，讲义上有，是指年长男子组成的较小政治机构，通常他们做出决定，然后公示给整个。。。,所有公民，整个投票群体。

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