Now, here we go with another council,

现在来说说另一个大会
you've heard about the council of four hundred,

你们已经听说了四百人议会
you've heard about the council of three hundred.

和三百人议会
We can do better than that;

更有趣的是
we're going to have the council of five hundred.

我们下面来讲五百人议会
It will be the council that is the democratic council

这是个民主大会
for the remainder of the history of the Athenian democracy,

一直伴随着雅典民主而存在
with the exception of short periods of oligarchic rebellion that remove it,

虽然中间因为寡头叛乱而消失了一阵子
but it comes back when the democracy does.

但后来又随着民主一起回来了
That council--let me simply describe it very briefly.

我先简单地描述一下这个大会
It is open to all Athenian adult male citizens.

它对所有雅典的成年男性公民开放
Membership on the council comes through some combination

大会的会籍通过一系列