ῥήτωρ, ορος, ὁ,
also ἡ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 945 (compare “Th.” 292)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (ἐρῶ):— public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 124 (_anapaest meter_), compare “fragment” 597.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.129, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 149b25, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.272S., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.131a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 38, 680, “Eq.” 60, 358, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.1, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.22, etc.; _sing._ probably in “IG” 12.45.21] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 29 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὁ ῥ. 'par excellence' = Demosthenes, [[ 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 4.1, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 one who gives sentence, judge, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1090. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 advocate, [[ POxy. 37.4 (1st c.AD), etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__4 later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, [[ “OGI” 712 (from Egypt), etc. ] Refs]
__II as adjective, ῥ. λόγος oratory, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 2.1386.7. ] Refs]