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ρητήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ρητήρ ρητῆρος

Structure: ῥητηρ (Stem)

Etym.: r(e/w, e)rw=

Sense

  1. a speaker

Declension

Third 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

  • παρασκευάζων τῇ πατρίδι μύθων τε ῥητῆρ’ ἔμεναι πρηκτῆρά τε ἔργων ἐν οὐ μικρῷ μέρει πολιτείασ οὐδὲ φαύλῳ χρήσιμόσ ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ εἰσ ὃ μάλιστα καὶ πρῶτον ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ ἐντείνασ ἑαυτὸν εἴθισε· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 24 3:1)
  • τῆσ εὐγενείασ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι μύθων τε ῥητῆρ’ ἔμεναι πρηκτῆρά τε ἔργων,’ ἐπειδὴ χρόνον οὐκ ἔχεισ ἀνδρὸσ φιλοσόφου βίον ὕπαιθρον ἐν πράξεσι πολιτικαῖσ καὶ δημοσίοισ ἀγῶσι κατανοῆσαι καὶ γενέσθαι παραδειγμάτων ἔργῳ μὴ λόγῳ περαινομένων θεατήσ, ἀξιοῖσ δὲ παραγγέλματα λαβεῖν πολιτικά· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 1 3:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἄν τῷ τε Ἀχιλλεῖ διδάσκαλον λόγων ἐπήγετο τὸν Φοίνικα φησὶ γοῦν πεμφθῆναι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ μύθων τε ῥητῆρ’ ἔμεναι πρηκτῆρά τε ἔργων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:4)
  • τοὔνεκά με προέηκε διδασκέμεναι τάδε πάντα, μύθων τε ῥητῆρ’ ἔμεναι πρηκτῆρά τε ἔργων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 25:7)
  • ἀλλ’ Ὅμηροσ μὲν ἔφη τὸν Φοίνικα ὑπὸ τοῦ Πηλέωσ πεμφθῆναι τῷ Ἀχιλλεῖ μύθων τε ῥητῆρ’ ἔμεναι πρηκτηρά τε ἔργων, ὡσ τὸν αὐτὸν εἰδότα ἅ τε δεῖ λέγειν καὶ ἃ πράττειν ἄμεινον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 96:9)

Synonyms

  1. a speaker

Related

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

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