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δημηγορικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημηγορικός

Structure: δημηγορικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from dhmhgo/ros

Sense

  1. of or for public speaking, qualified for it

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ Θουδήμου τοῦ μετὰ Διότιμον ἄρξαντοσ τόν τε κατὰ Τιμοκράτουσ λόγον ἔγραψε Διοδώρῳ τῷ κρίνοντι παρανόμων τὸν Τιμοκράτη καὶ τὸν περὶ τῆσ Μεγαλοπολιτῶν βοηθείασ δημηγορικὸν αὐτὸσ ἀπήγγειλε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 4 1:2)
  • τί οὖν μαθόντεσ ἅπασαν τὴν διάλεκτον τοῦ συγγραφέωσ ἐπαινοῦμεν καὶ βιαζόμεθα λέγειν, ὅτι τοῖσ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν οὖσιν ἀνθρώποισ αὐτὰ ὁ Θουκυδίδησ ἔγραψε συνήθη πᾶσι καὶ γνώριμα ὄντα, ἡμῶν δὲ λόγοσ αὐτῷ τῶν ὕστερον ἐσομένων οὐκ ἦν, οἳ δ’ ἐκβάλλομεν ἐκ τῶν δικαστηρίων καὶ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἅπασαν τὴν Θουκυδίδου λέξιν ὡσ ἄχρηστον, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁμολογοῦμεν τὸ διηγηματικὸν μέροσ αὐτῆσ πλὴν ὀλίγων πάνυ θαυμαστῶσ ἔχειν καὶ εἰσ πάσασ εἶναι τὰσ χρείασ εὔθετον, τὸ δὲ δημηγορικὸν οὐχ ἅπαν εἰσ μίμησιν ἐπιτήδειον εἶναι, ἀλλ’ ὅσον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ μέροσ γνωσθῆναι μὲν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ εὔπορον, κατασκευασθῆναι δ’ οὐχ ἅπασι δυνατόν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 55 1:4)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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