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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

  • ἣ μὲν γὰρ ὀλίγα πράγματα καὶ μικρὰ περιέχουσα πληθύει τῶν ῥητορειῶν, ἣ δὲ περὶ πολλὰσ καὶ μεγάλασ συνταχθεῖσα πράξεισ δημηγορικῶν σπανίζει λόγων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 16 1:4)
  • τῶν δὲ δημηγορικῶν λόγων τεθαύμακα μὲν τὸν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ βύβλῳ ῥηθέντα ἐν Ἀθήναισ ὑπὸ Περικλέουσ περὶ τοῦ μὴ εἴκειν Λακεδαιμονίοισ, τὸν ἔχοντα τήνδε τὴν ἀρχήν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 421)
  • μυρία παραδείγματα φέρειν δυναίμην ἂν ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ λόγων τῶν τε δημηγορικῶν καὶ τῶν δικανικῶν, ἃ παρὰ τὸν Θουκυδίδου κατεσκεύασται χαρακτῆρα τὸν ἐν τῇ κοινῇ καὶ συνήθει διαλέκτῳ τὴν ἐξαλλαγὴν ἔχοντα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 551)
  • δυνάμει δὲ ὡσ οὐκ ἴσῃ τῇ βουλήσει κέχρηται, παράδειγμα ἐξ ἑνὸσ τῶν δημηγορικῶν λόγων τόδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 1:5)

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

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