ἁλία

A. assembly of people, in Dor. states, answering to Att. ἐκκλησία, at Sparta, ἁ. συλλέγειν Hdt. 7.134; at Byz., Decr. ap. D. 18.90; at Corcyra, IG 9(1).682; in Sicily and Magna Graecia, IG 14.952 (Agrigentum), 612 (Rhegium), Tab.Heracl. 1.118, 2.10; at Epidamnus and Tarentum, Arist. Pol. 1301b23 (prob. cj. for ἡλιαία).

II. generally, meeting, assembly, ἁλίην ποιεῖσθαι Hdt. 5.29,79; of the Persians, 1.125.