¹ The μικρὰ ἐκκλησία of Xen. Hell. iii. 3. 8 is often thought of as an assembly of restricted membership. Is it not rather an extraordinary meeting of the full ecclesia (μεγάλαι '᎑πέλλαι (cf.τὰΙΙαυαθθηυαῖα τὰμεγάλα καῖ τὰ μικρά) imply μικραι 'Απέλλαι)? The original distinction could either be between statutory and special or between statutory annual and say statutory monthly; in the second case special meetings when introduced would be felt to have the same status as the ‘lesser’ ordinary ones. If this is ecclesia right the passage offers a useful glimpse of the relationship between ephors, gerousia, and assembly, but it would not follow from this, nor does it, pace Jones, from any other passage that the ephors could bypass the gerousia in summoning the ecclesia.