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δημηγόρος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δημηγόρος

Etym.: a)goreu/w

Sense

  1. a popular orator, a speaker's

Examples

  • σὺ δὲ καὶ πάνυ ἤδη ἔννομοσ εἶ δημηγόροσ, πρόπαλαι μὲν ἐξ ἐφήβων γεγονώσ, ἐγγεγραμμένοσ δὲ ἐσ τὸ τῶν δώδεκα ληξιαρχικόν, καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν τῆσ ἐπὶ Κρόνου βουλῆσ ὤν· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 26:3)
  • καὶ Παιανιέων δημηγόροσ ἔπρεπε σάλπιγξ, ῥήτρησ εὐκελάδοιο πατὴρ σοφόσ, ὁ πρὶν Ἀθήναισ πειθοῦσ θελξινόοιο νοήμονα πυρσὸν ἀνάψασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 4:2)
  • ὦ Σώκρατεσ, δοκεῖσ νεανιεύεσθαι ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ δημηγόροσ ὤν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 215:1)
  • ὡσ ἄτοποσ εἶ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, καὶ ἀτεχνῶσ δημηγόροσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 289:1)
  • <καὶ> Καλλίστρατοσ δὲ ὁ δημηγόροσ παρῆν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a popular orator

Related

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

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