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δημόομαι

demoomai

sing a popular song

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Where it lives

Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k

What it meant

δημόομαι · dēmoomai — LSJ

sing a popular song, ad captandum, display

sing a popular song (cf. δάμωμα), γλυκύ τι δαμωσόμεθα Pi. I. 8(7).9; δημούμενον λέγειν talk ad captandum, Pl. Tht. 161e; also δ. ἱερὰς ἐσθῆτας display, Jul. Ep. 89b (s. v. l.).

II to be made public

Pass., to be made public, D.C. 53.19,Fr. 57.80.

In the wild

δημούμενον · dēmoumenon Plato, Theaetetus 161

Where it came from

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