ῥήτωρ,ορος,ὁ, alsoἡ
Ar. Fr. 945 (cf. Th. 292 ): (ἐρῶ):—
A. public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες
E. Hec. 124
(anap.), cf. Fr. 597.4 , Isoc. 8.129 , Arist. Top. 149b25 , Phld. Rh. 2.272S. , Plu. 2.131a , etc.; esp. at Athens,οἱ ῥήτορεςthepublic speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Ar. Ach. 38 , 680 , Eq. 60 , 358 , al., Th. 8.1 , And. 3.1 , Lys. 30.22 , etc.; sg. prob. in IG 12.45.21 ;οἱ δέκα ῥ.the Ten Attic Orators, Luc. Am. 29 ;ὁ ῥ.'par excellence'=Demosthenes, Hermog. Inv. 4.1 , al.
2. one who gives sentence, judge, S. Fr. 1090 .
3. advocate,
POxy. 37.4
(i A.D.), etc.
4. later,teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, OGI 712 (Egypt), etc.
II. asAdj., ῥ. λόγος oratory,
IG 2.1386.7
.