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ὑποκριτής

hypokrites

one who answers

Appears 10 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ὑποκριτής, οῦ, ὁ, A. one who answers: I. interpreter or expounder, τῆς διʼ αἰνιγμῶν φήμης Pl. Ti. 72b; ὀνείρων Luc. Somn. 17, etc. II. in Att., one who plays a part on the stage, actor, Ar. V. 1279, Pl. R. 373b, Chrm. 162d, Smp. 194b, X. Mem. 2.2.9, etc. 2. of an orator, ποικίλος ὑ. καὶ περιττός (of Dem.) Phld. Rh. 1.197 S.; one who delivers, recites, declaimer, ἐπῶν Tim. Lex. s.v. ῥαψῳδοί; rhapsodist, D.S. 14.109, 15.7; this sense or sense II.1 is possible in PCair.Zen. 4.44 (iii B. C.). 3. metaph., pretender, dissembler, hypocrite, LXX Jb. 34.30, 36.13, Ev.Matt. 23.13, al.
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