δῆμος,
Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.710; Λυκίης ἐν πίονι δ. 16.437, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.322, etc.; 'Ιθάκης ἐνὶ δ. 1.103; δήμῳ ἔνι Τρώων 13.266; λαοὶ ἀνὰ δῆμον 16.95: _metaphorically_, δῆμος ὀνείρων] Refs 8th c.BC+] the land of dreams, [[ 24.12. ] Refs]
__2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.50, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 271; Βακτρίων ἔρρει πανώλης δ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 732. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.198, 188, compare 11.328, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 261, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.66, NT.Act.12.22, etc. (rarely of a single person, δῆμον ἐόντα] NT+8th c.BC+] being a commoner, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.213)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to οἱ παχέες, [[ [prev. author] 5.30 ] Refs]; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4; οἱ.. ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες δῆμος [prev. author] 8.73 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; = Latin plebs, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.88, etc.; τοῦ πολλοῦ δ. εἷς ] Refs 1st c.BC+]unus de plebe, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sat.” 2; τοῦ δ. ὤν [prev. author] “Gall.” 22 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in an army, rank and file, opposed to officers, ὁ δ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]