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Demosthenes

the most celebrated of the Grecian orators

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 7 · 44.22/10k
Phocion 2 · 37.52/10k
Orator 18 · 9.74/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 8 · 8.6/10k
Brutus 12 · 4.78/10k
Institutio Oratoria 64 · 3.72/10k
Noctes Atticae 28 · 2.5/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Oratore 11 · 1.83/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dēmosthĕnes — Lewis & Short

Dēmosthĕnes, is (

I gen. i, Cic. Opt. Gen. 5, 14), m., *dhmosqe/nhs, the most celebrated of the Grecian orators, Cic. de Or. 1, 13; 20; id. Brut. 9; Prop. 3 (4), 21, 27; Quint. 10, 1, 76; 12, 10, 23 sq.; Juv. 10, 114 et saep.—Hence,

II Dēmosthĕnĭcus, a, um, adj., Demosthenic: Demosthenicum, quod ter primum ille vocavit (i. e. action), Aus. Prof. 1, 19.

Where it came from

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