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ῥῆσις

resis · ἡ

saying, speech

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Where it lives

  • Proverbia 9 · 8.1/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
  • Ars Poetica 3 · 2.97/10k
  • Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
  • Esdras II 1 · 0.84/10k
  • Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
  • Republic 5 · 0.56/10k
  • Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
  • Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
  • Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

saying, speech, speech, answer

saying, speech, μύθων καὶ ῥήσιος Od. 21.291; ῥ. ἀγγελῶν Pi. N. 1.59; καταπλέξαι τὴν ῥῆσιν end oneʼs speech, Hdt. 8.83; ῥ. βραχεῖα S. Fr. 64; ξυνεχής Th. 5.85; μακρὰν ῥ. οὐ στέργει πόλις A. Supp. 273; εἰπεῖν ῥ. οὐ θρῆνον θέλω Id. Ag. 1322; ῥ. λέγειν ἀμφί τινος Id. Supp. 615, cf. S. Fr. 142.20; περὶ σμικροῦ πράγματος ῥ. παμμήκεις ποιεῖν Pl. Phdr. 268c; μακρὰν ῥ. ἀποτείνειν Id. R. 605d, Luc. Prom. 6; ἡ ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥ. the Scythian answer, Hdt. 4.127 (a phrase that became proverbial, cf. Plu. Prov. 1.

2 resolution, declaration

resolution, declaration, Λακεδαιμονίων ῥ. Hdt. 1.152, cf. Crates Com. 56, IG l.c.

3 speaking

speaking, opp. reading (ἀνάγνωσις), D.H. Isoc. 2 (Wolf, for χρήσεως).

II tale, legend

tale, legend, ἀνθρώπων παλαιαὶ ῥ. Pi. O. 7.55.

III expression, passage, speech in a play

expression or passage in an author, esp. speech in a play, Ar. Nu. 1371, V. 580, Ra. 151, Men. Epit. 585: pl. in Ephipp. 16.3, D. 18.267; ῥ. τινὲς τῶν Ἀριστοφανείων Plu. QConv. 2.712d; esp. of the dramatic parts of epic poetry, Phot.

IV manner of speaking, style, prose

manner of speaking, style, ἡ κατὰ πεζὸν ῥ. prose, Longin. Proll.Heph. 1.3.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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