ῥήτωρ

hretor

public speaker

Appears 16 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 11
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Book I 2
Chapter 1 1354a1–1355b24

1355b20

Chapter 2 1355b25–1358a35

1356b22
Book II 2
Chapter 11 1388a31–1388b30

1388b18

Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33

1398b2
Book III 7
Chapter 1 1404a6–39

1404a18

Chapter 4 1406b20–1407a18

1407a8

Chapter 11 1411b22–1413b2

1413b2

Chapter 12 1413b3–1414a30

1413b16
1413b21
1414a15

Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39

1418a30
Topics 3
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Book VI 3
Chapter 12 149a29–149b39

149b25
149b26
149b29
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 3 1112a18–1113a14

1112b13
Politics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 1255a3–1255b15

1255a8

Dictionary (LSJ)

ῥήτωρ, ορος, ὁ, also ἡ Ar. Fr. 945 (cf. Th. 292): (ἐρῶ):—A. public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες E. Hec. 124 (anap.), cf. Fr. 597.4, Isoc. 8.129, Arist. Top. 149b25, Phld. Rh. 2.272S., Plu. 2.131a, etc.; esp. at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Ar. Ach. 38,680, Eq. 60, 358, al., Th. 8.1, And. 3.1, Lys. 30.22, etc.; sg. prob. in IG 12.45.21; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, Luc. Am. 29; ὁ ῥ. ‘par excellence’ = Demosthenes, Hermog. Inv. 4.1, al. 2. one who gives sentence, judge, S. Fr. 1090. 3. advocate, POxy. 37.4 (i A.D.), etc. 4. later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, OGI 712 (Egypt), etc. II. as Adj., ῥ. λόγος oratory, IG 2.1386.7.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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