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δημήγορος (demegoros)

δημήγορος means “popular orator; rhetorical”.

Ancient Greek word, found 7 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 254: ἀχάριστον ὑμῶν σπέρμʼ, ὅσοι δημηγόρους

Plutarch, De esu carnium I 3: … ων, ἃς κατιὼν ὁ λόγος συγκατήνεγκε τῇ ῥύμῃ τῆς φορᾶς, συνεκπεσούσας καὶ παρολισθούσας τῷ λοιπῷ τοῦ λόγου. καὶ δημηγόρου τινὸς ὁρῶν.

Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.15: ἑώρων γάρ, ἔφη ὁ Κριτόβουλος, ῥήτοράς τε φαύλους ἀγαθοῖς δημηγόροις φίλους ὄντας, καὶ στρατηγεῖν οὐχ ἱκανοὺς πάνυ στρατηγικοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἑταίρους.

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.