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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

  • εὖ λέγεισ ἐπίτομόν τινα ῥητορείαν καὶ ῥᾳδιουργίαν ταύτην εὐκαιρον τοῖσ ἀπορουμένοισ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 14:18)
  • τοῦτό γέ τοι συνέντα αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖσ τελευταίοισ τῆσ ἱστορίασ φησὶ μηδεμίαν τάξαι ῥητορείαν, πολλῶν μὲν κατὰ τὴν Ιὠνίαν γενομένων, πολλῶν δ’ ἐν ταῖσ Ἀθήναισ, ὅσα διὰ διαλόγων καὶ δημηγοριῶν ἐπράχθη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 16 1:2)
  • Θεόδοτοσ δὲ δεινότητα λόγου καὶ ῥητορείαν ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ οὐδέτερον ἀπέφηνεν ἀσφαλέσ, ἀλλὰ δεξαμένουσ μὲν ἕξειν Καίσαρα πολέμιον καὶ δεσπότην Πομπήϊον, ἀπωσαμένουσ δὲ καὶ Πομπηϊῴ τῆσ ἐκβολῆσ ὑπαιτίουσ ἔσεσθαι καὶ Καίσαρι τῆσ διώξεωσ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 77 4:1)
  • ὃ καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν μαθητῶν ἐζήλουν <ὡσ> καὶ τὴν ῥητορείαν καὶ πᾶν τὸ σχῆμα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. s'. ARKESILAOS 9:5)
  • καὶ τῶν λόγων πότερον τοὺσ περὶ τὴν ῥητορείαν, ἢ τοὺσ διαλεκτικοὺσ, ἢ τὴν ποίησιν, ἢ τὴν ἄλλην συγγραφὴν, εἰ δὲ βούλει, τί τῆσ ποιήσεωσ εἶδοσ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 95:10)

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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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