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ῥητορεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥητορεία

Structure: ῥητορει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from r(htoreu/w

Sense

  1. skill in public speaking, eloquence, oratory, rhetoric
  2. a piece of oratory, set speech

Declension

First 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

  • πολλὰ καὶ ἄλλα τισ ἂν εὑρ́οι δι’ ὅλησ τῆσ ἱστορίασ ἢ τῆσ ἄκρασ ἐξεργασίασ τετυχηκότα καὶ μήτε πρόσθεσιν δεχόμενα μήτ’ ἀφαίρεσιν, ἢ ῥᾳθύμωσ ἐπιτετροχασμένα καὶ οὐδὲ τὴν ἐλαχίστην ἔμφασιν ἔχοντα τῆσ δεινότητοσ ἐκείνησ, μάλιστα δ’ ἐν ταῖσ δημηγορίαισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ διαλόγοισ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ῥητορείαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 161)
  • ἤδη δὲ ἔγωγε καὶ ἐν αὐταῖσ ἔδοξα ταῖσ ῥητορείαισ τοῦτο συμβεβηκέναι τῷ ἀνδρὶ τὸ πάθοσ, ὥστε περὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν καὶ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ καιρῷ τιθέναι μὲν ἃσ οὐκ ἔδει, παραλιπεῖν δὲ ἃσ ἔδει λέγεσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 17 1:1)
  • τοῖσ εἰσ τὰσ ἱστορίασ ὑπερμήκεισ δημηγορίασ παρεμβάλλουσιν ἢ πυκναῖσ χρωμένοισ ῥητορείαισ δικαίωσ ἄν τισ ἐπιτιμήσειεν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 1 1:1)

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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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