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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

  • κατὰ δὴ ταῦτα, ἐκεῖνα ἔχε συλλαβὼν τὰ τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ ὅσα τῇ χειρὶ τῇ αὑτοῦ ὁ ῥήτωρ ἔγραψε, καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θουκυδίδου ὅσα παρὰ τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ καὶ αὐτὰ ὀκτάκισ μεταγεγραμμένα εὑρέθη, καὶ ὅλωσ ἅπαντα ἐκεῖνα ὅσα ὁ Σύλλασ Ἀθήνηθεν εἰσ Ἰταλίαν ἐξέπεμψε· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 4:2)
  • λοιπὸν οὖν δὴ ἐκεῖνο, πεπεισμένον ὑπὸ τῶν κολάκων ὡσ οὐ μόνον καλὸσ εἶ καὶ ἐράσμιοσ ἀλλὰ σοφὸσ καὶ ῥήτωρ καὶ συγγραφεὺσ οἱο͂σ οὐδ’ ἕτεροσ, ὠνεῖσθαι τὰ βιβλία, ὡσ ἀληθεύοισ τοὺσ ἐπαίνουσ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 20:1)
  • ἄνδρεσ τοίνυν δικασταί, φησὶν ὁ λόγοσ, ὁ μὲν προειπὼν ῥήτωρ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα τόνδε τὸν οἶκον ἐπῄνεσε καὶ τῷ ἑαυτοῦ λόγῳ ἐκόσμησεν, ἐγὼ δὲ τοσούτου δέω ψόγον αὐτοῦ διεξελεύσεσθαι, ὥστε καὶ τὰ ὑπ’ ἐκείνου παραλελειμμένα προσθήσειν μοι δοκῶ· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 15:1)
  • τοῦτο δέ μοι δοκεῖ λογισάμενοσ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ὁμήρου ῥήτωρ ἐκεῖνοσ εὐμορφίασ ἐλάχιστον φροντίσαι, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ παντελῶσ ἀΐδρει φωτὶ ἑαυτὸν ἀπεικάσαι, ἵνα αὐτῷ παραδοξότερον φαίνηται τῶν λόγων τὸ κάλλοσ ἐκ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ ἀμορφότερον ἐξετάσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 17:4)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ ὅτι μὲν οὐχ ὁ ῥήτωρ παρὰ τοῦ φιλοσόφου τὰσ τέχνασ παρέλαβεν αἷσ τοὺσ θαυμαστοὺσ ἐκείνουσ κατεσκεύασε λόγουσ, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον τὰ Δημοσθένουσ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων ἔργα παραθέμενοσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ταύτασ ἔγραψε τὰσ τέχνασ, ἱκανῶσ ἀποδεδεῖχθαι νομίζω. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 12 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. orator

  2. judge

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