δημαγωγός

demagogos

popular leader

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 21
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 1273b27–1274b28

1274a14
Book IV 5
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38

1292a7
1292a8
1292a10
1292a20
1292a23
Book V 12
Chapter 5 1304b19–1305a36

1304b28
1304b32
1304b36
1305a7
1305a11

Chapter 6 1305a37–1306b21

1305b24

Chapter 8 1307b26–1309a32

1308a17
1308a23

Chapter 9 1309a33–1310a38

1310a3

Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10

1313b40
1313b40

Chapter 12 1315b11–1316b27

1315b27
Book VI 3
Chapter 4 1318b6–1319b29

1319b11

Chapter 5 1319b30–1320b17

1320a4
1320a30

Dictionary (LSJ)

δημαγωγός, ὁ, A. popular leader, as Cleon or Pericles, Th. 4.21, Isoc. 8.126; δ. ἀγαθοί Lys. 27.10; ὁ δίκαιος δ. Hyp. Dem.Fr. 5. 2. more freq. in bad sense, leader of the mob, demagogue, X. HG 2.3.27; ὀχλοκόπος καὶ δ. Plb. 3.80.3; λόγοι δημαγωγοῦ, opp. ἔργα τυράννου, And. 4.27; ἔστι γὰρ ὁ δ. τοῦ δήμου κόλαξ Arist. Pol. 1313b40, cf. 1292a20, etc.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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