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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

  • ἣ μὲν γὰρ ὀλίγα πράγματα καὶ μικρὰ περιέχουσα πληθύει τῶν ῥητορειῶν, ἣ δὲ περὶ πολλὰσ καὶ μεγάλασ συνταχθεῖσα πράξεισ δημηγορικῶν σπανίζει λόγων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 16 1:4)
  • ποιήσομαι δὲ οὐ χωρὶσ ὑπὲρ ἑκάστησ ἰδέασ τὸν λόγον, ὑποτάττων αὐταῖσ τὴν Θουκυδίδου λέξιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ περιοχάσ τινασ καὶ τόπουσ, μέρη λαμβάνων τῆσ τε διηγήσεωσ καὶ τῶν ῥητορειῶν καὶ παρατιθεὶσ τοῖσ τε πραγματικοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ λεκτικοῖσ κατορθώμασιν ἢ ἁμαρτήμασι τὰσ αἰτίασ, δι’ ἃσ τοιαῦτά ἐστι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 252)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτι Θηβαίοισ ἐγεγόνει πάντα χαλεπῶσ ἔφερον, οὐ λογιζόμενοι τὴν Πελοπίδου δόξαν, ὅσων ἦν ῥητορειῶν καὶ λόγων κρείττων παρ’ ἀνθρώπῳ θεραπεύοντι τοὺσ τῶν ὅπλων ἀεὶ κρατοῦντασ. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 30 7:2)

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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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