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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

  • μέχρι τοῦδ’ εὑρισκομένων δώδεκα λόγων, ὧν εἴρηκα, δημοσίων, ἐν οἷσ εἰσι δημηγορικοὶ μὲν ἑπτά, δικανικοὶ δὲ πέντε, ἅπαντεσ ἐγένοντο πρότεροι τῶν Ἀριστοτέλουσ τεχνῶν, ὡσ ἔκ τε τῶν ἱστορουμένων περὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀποδείξω καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γραφέντων, ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξάμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 4 3:1)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἱ λόγοι δημηγορικοί, καὶ ἔχουσιν ἀγαθὸν τοῦτο, ὅτι πράγματα μὲν εὑρεῖν ὅμοια γεγενημένα χαλεπόν, λόγουσ δὲ ῥᾷον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 20 7:1)
  • ἀλλὰ Κρίτων τε Σωκράτουσ ἦν ὁμιλητὴσ καὶ Χαιρεφῶν καὶ Χαιρεκράτησ καὶ Ἑρμογένησ καὶ Σιμμίασ καὶ Κέβησ καὶ Φαιδώνδασ καὶ ἄλλοι, οἳ ἐκείνῳ συνῆσαν, οὐχ ἵνα δημηγορικοὶ ἢ δικανικοὶ γένοιντο, ἀλλ’ ἵνα καλοί τε κἀγαθοὶ γενόμενοι καὶ οἴκῳ καὶ οἰκέταισ καὶ οἰκείοισ καὶ φίλοισ καὶ πόλει καὶ πολίταισ δύναιντο καλῶσ χρῆσθαι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 57:1)

Related

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

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