ῥητ-ός, ή, όν,
(ἐρῶ) stated, specified, covenanted, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.445 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; παρεῖναι ἐς χρόνον ῥ. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.77, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἡμέραις ῥ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.29; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς γέρασι πατρικαὶ βασιλεῖαι [prev. author] 1.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥ. ἀργύριον a stated sum, [[ [prev. author] 2.7, 4.69 ] Refs]; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖσι, Attic dialect ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς, on stated terms, on certain conditions, according to covenant, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.57, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 459, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.22, +others; παρέσεσθαι εἰς ῥ. ἡμέραν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥ. ἀπόκρισις a distinct, definite answer, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 32.6.7: ῥητόν, τό ] Refs 2nd c.BC+], fixed date for a lawsuit, [[ “PSI” 4.463.14 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; so perhaps ἀπὸ ῥητῶν [[ “IG” 12 (9).1273 (Euboea, 6th c.BC). ] Refs 6th c.BC+] adverb -τῶς expressly, distinctly, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.23.5, “SIG” 685.77 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.105 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, NT.1Tim.4.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).427] NT+5th c.BC+]: superlative ῥητότατα [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.16. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 spoken of, famous, ῥητοί τ᾽ ἄρρητοί τε [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 4. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 of language, in common use (= συνήθης), [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “Pron.” 113.18; φράσις [prev. author] “Synt.” 39.15 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. adverb -τῶς[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.161 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]