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λογογράφος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λογογράφος

Etym.: gra/fw

Sense

  1. a prose-writer, chroniclers
  2. a speech-writer, one who lived by writing speeches

Examples

  • πολλῷ γ’ ἀμείνων, ὡσ ἐοίκασ, ἦσθ’ ἄρα λογογράφοσ ἢ μάγειροσ, ὃ λέγεισ οὐ λέγεισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 30 3:5)
  • βαστάζονται δὲ οἱ ἀναγνωστικοί, οἱο͂ν Χαιρήμων ἀκριβὴσ γὰρ ὥσπερ λογογράφοσ, καὶ Λικύμνιοσ τῶν διθυραμβοποιῶν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 2:4)
  • παλαιὸσ μὲν οὖν οὔτε συγγραφεὺσ οὔτε λογογράφοσ ἐστὶ Ῥωμαίων οὐδὲ εἷσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 73 1:2)
  • οὐ σὺ λογογράφοσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 328:4)
  • καίτοι λογογράφοσ γέ τισ φησίν, ὁ μηχανώμενοσ αὐτῷ τὴν ἀπολογίαν, ἐναντία με λέγειν ἐμαυτῷ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 941)

Synonyms

  1. a prose-writer

Related

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

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