Sentence:  The whole course of the ordinary suit at law, as carried on at Athens after the Solonian reforms, may be divided into five stages : the summons, the appearance before the magistrate, the preliminary hearing or <WSD>anacrisis</WSD>, the trial before the dicastery, and the judgment. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial.