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Δημόσθενες (Demosthenes)

Δημόσθενες is an Ancient Greek form of Δημοσθένης, meaning “Demosthenes — Athenian orator and statesman (384–322 BC); also an Athenian general”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demosthenes 7.2: ἀληθῆ λέγεις, ὦ Δημόσθενες, φάναι τὸν Σάτυρον, ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ τὸ αἴτιον ἰάσομαι ταχέως, ἄν μοι τῶν Εὐριπίδου τινὰ ῥήσεων ἢ Σοφοκλέους ἐθελήσῃς …

Aeschines, Against Timarchus 127: ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ Δημοσθενες, περὶ μὲν τῶν ἀναθημάτων καὶ τῶν οἰκιῶν καὶ τῶν κτημάτων καὶ πάντων ὅλως τῶν ἀφώνων πολλοὺς καὶ παντοδαποὺς κ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.