The corpus record

δημᾰγωγ-ός

demagogos · ὁ

popular leader

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Politics 26 · 3.98/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant

δημᾰγωγ-ός · dēmagōg-os — LSJ

popular leader

popular leader, as Cleon or Pericles, Th. 4.21, Isoc. 8.126; δ. ἀγαθοί Lys. 27.10; ὁ δίκαιος δ. Hyp. Dem. Fr. 5.

2 leader of the mob, demagogue

more freq. in bad sense, leader of the mob, demagogue, X. HG 2.3.27; ὀχλοκόπος καὶ δ. Plb. 3.80.3; λόγοι δημαγωγοῦ, opp. ἔργα τυράννου, And. 4.27; ἔστι γὰρ ὁ δ. τοῦ δήμου κόλαξ Arist. Pol. 1313b40, cf. 1292a20, etc.

In the wild

δημαγωγὸς · dēmagōgos Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..22 (DIORISIS sentence 279)
δημαγωγοὺς · dēmagōgous Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..41 (DIORISIS sentence 482)
δημαγωγῶν · dēmagōgōn Aristotle, Politics 1274a (DIORISIS sentence 847)
δημαγωγοὺς · dēmagōgous Aristotle, Politics 1274a (DIORISIS sentence 848)
δημαγωγός · dēmagōgos Aristotle, Politics 1292a (DIORISIS sentence 1494)
δημαγωγοί · dēmagōgoi Aristotle, Politics 1292a (DIORISIS sentence 1495)

6 of 36 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about δημᾰγωγ-ός →