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ῥητορικός

hretorikos

oratorical

Appears 138 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ῥητορικός, ή, όν, A. oratorical, ἡ ῥητορική (sc. τέχνη) rhetoric, Pl. Phdr. 266d, Phld. Rh. 1.187 S.; τὸ ῥ. Pl. Phdr. 266c, Plt. 304e; τὰ ῥ. D.L. 4.49, etc.; ῥ. δειλίαν ὁ δημόσιος καιρὸς οὐκ ἀναμένει an oratorʼs timidity, Aeschin. 3.163; ῥ. γραφή an indictment against an orator (παρανόμων), Is. Fr. 64 S. Adv. -κῶς Pl. Grg. 471e, Aeschin. 1.71, Arist. Po. 1450b8, Phld. Rh. 2.134 S.: Comp., -ώτερον λέγεσθαι D.H. Is. 8. 2. of persons, skilled in speaking, fit to be an orator, Isoc. 3.8, Pl. Phdr. 260c, 272d, al.; φύσει ῥ. ib.269d, etc.; σχολαστικὸς ῥ. OGI 693 (Egypt). b. student, Lib. Or. 14.62. 3. belonging to a ῥήτωρ, δοῦλος Stud.Pal. 1.67.289 (i A.D.).
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