The corpus record

δημηγορ-ία

demegoria · ἡ

deliberative speaking

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Where it lives

Phaedrus 3 · 1.8/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
Rhetoric 3 · 0.7/10k
Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

δημηγορ-ία · dēmēgor-ia — LSJ

deliberative speaking

deliberative speaking, opp. forensic (δικανική), Arist. Rh. 1354b28.

2 speech in the public assembly

speech in the public assembly, Aeschin. 2.243, Jul. Or. 2.75b (pl.).

3 position of a public speaker

position of a public speaker, Pl. Ap. 36b (pl.).

II popular oratory, claptrap

esp. popular oratory, claptrap, Id. Tht. 162d.

In the wild

δημηγορία · dēmēgoria Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
δημηγορίᾳ · dēmēgoriai Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
δημηγορίαις · dēmēgoriais Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
δημηγορίας · dēmēgorias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 469)
δημηγοριῶν · dēmēgoriōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4485)
δημηγοριῶν · dēmēgoriōn Plato, Apology 36

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Where it came from

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