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ῥήτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥήτωρ ῥήτορος

Structure: ῥητωρ (Stem)

Etym.: e)re/w, e)rw=

Sense

  1. orator, public speaker
  2. politician, statesman
  3. attorney, court advocate
  4. judge
  5. rhetorician

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

  • ἔστι δὲ ἥδε, τίνεσ εἰσὶν ἀξιολογώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων ῥητόρων τε καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ τίνεσ αὐτῶν ἐγένοντο προαιρέσεισ τοῦ τε βίου καὶ τῶν λόγων καὶ τί παρ’ ἑκάστου δεῖ λαμβάνειν ἢ φυλάττεσθαι, καλὰ θεωρήματα καὶ ἀναγκαῖα τοῖσ ἀσκοῦσι τὴν πολιτικὴν φιλοσοφίαν καὶ οὐ δήπου μὰ Δία κοινὰ οὐδὲ κατημαξευμένα τοῖσ πρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 42)
  • τῶν δὲ ῥητόρων τε καὶ συγγραφέων, ὑπὲρ ὧν ὁ λόγοσ, πολλῶν πάνυ ὄντων καὶ ἀγαθῶν τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων γράφειν μακροῦ λόγου δεόμενον ὁρῶν ἐάσω, τοὺσ δὲ χαριεστάτουσ ἐξ αὐτῶν προχειρισάμενοσ κατὰ τὰσ ἡλικίασ ἐρῶ περὶ ἑκάστου, νῦν μὲν περὶ τῶν ῥητόρων, ἐὰν δὲ ἐγχωρῇ, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἱστορικῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 4 1:5)
  • ἐμπεσὼν δ’ αὐτὸσ εἰσ μέσην τὴν τῶν ῥητόρων δυσμένειαν, ὥσπερ τῆσ παρὰ θεῶν, οὕτω τῆσ παρ’ ὑμῶν δέομαι τυχεῖν βοηθείασ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 2:1)
  • μετὰ ταῦτα τοίνυν τῇ πόλει τρίτοσ ἐπήγετο κίνδυνοσ πάντων χαλεπώτατοσ, οὐκέτι πεμφθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ τῶν τότε ῥητόρων ἐπαχθείσ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 16:2)

Synonyms

  1. orator

  2. judge

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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