Ῥήτωρ

orator, speaker

Translated by Ioannis Doukas25 Mar 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

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[Meaning an] advocate,¹ pleader.² Also, in Sophocles,³ the judge delivering his own opinion.⁴

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥήτωρ· συνήγορος, δικολόγος. καὶ ὁ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀποφαίνων γνώμην κριτὴς παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ.

Betacode

*(rh/twr: sunh/goros, dikolo/gos. kai\ o( th\n i)di/an a)pofai/nwn gnw/mhn krith\s para\ *sofoklei=.

Same entry in the Synagoge (rho34) and Photius (rho113 Theodoridis). Compare also Hesychius rho280 and rho288.
For the headword see already rho 152. (For the original meaning of r(h/twr as an eloquent person see ps.-Zonaras 1610.12-3.);
1The noun sunh/goros defined both a public office and private avocation in Athens; see LSJ s.v. and cf. sigma 1459, sigma 1546, sigma 1547, sigma 1548. The noun is listed as a synonym of prosta/ths (Hesychius s.v. sunh/goros), and of logopoio/s in Hesychius' entry for the latter. See also e.g. Harpocration sigma58 Keaney, Photius sigma780 and sigma781 Theodoridis (with other references there). ↩
2See also pi 2194. ↩
3Sophocles fr. 1090 Radt (this word only), from an unidentified drama. The noun r(h/twr is not attested in any of Sophocles’ extant tragedies. ↩
4For the phrase gnw/mhn a)pofai/nw cf. e.g. Herodotus 1.40.2 (web address 1). ↩

Radt S. (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, vol. 4, Göttingen 1977

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