λεκτικός

lektikos

good at speaking, able to speak

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Poetics 2
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Chapter 4 1448b4–1449a31

1449a24
1449a27
Rhetoric 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 8 1408b21–1409a21

1408b33

Dictionary (LSJ)

λεκτικός, ή, όν, A. good at speaking, able to speak, X. Mem. 4.3.1, Cyr. 5.5.46 (Sup.); ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of speaking, Pl. Plt. 304d. II. suited for speaking, οἱ λ. τῶν λόγων speeches in common colloquial style, opp. ποιητικῶς συγκείμενοι, D. 61.2; μάλιστα λ. τῶν μέτρων τὸ ἰαμβεῖόν ἐστι Arist. Po. 1449a24, cf. Rh. 1408b33. Adv. -κῶς in prose, D.H. Comp. 25. 2. related to expression, stylistic, ὁ λ. τόπος the province of expression, ib.1, 4; opp. πραγματικός, of style, opp. matter, ἀρεταί Id. Pomp. 1; μέρος Id. Th. 34. III. Adv. -κῶς with the force of a word, of the termination -θεν, A.D. Adv. 195.16; verbally, Stoic. 3.214.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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