The corpus record

ῥήτωρ

retor · ὁ

public speaker

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Where it lives

Gorgias 28 · 10.64/10k
Menexenus 4 · 8.32/10k
Alcibiades 2 2 · 4.69/10k
Apology 4 · 4.58/10k
Enchiridion 2 · 4.03/10k
Euthydemus 4 · 3.21/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 32 · 2.99/10k
Rhetoric 11 · 2.56/10k
Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Phaedrus 3 · 1.8/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

public speaker, public speakers in the ἐκκλησία

public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες E. Hec. 124 (anap.), cf. Fr. 597.4, Isoc. 8.129, Arist. Top. 149b25, Phld. Rh. 2.272S., Plu. Sanit. 2.131a, etc.; esp. at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Ar. Ach. 38, 680, Eq. 60, 358, al., Th. 8.1, And. 3.1, Lys. 30.22, etc.; sg. prob. in IG 1(2).45.21; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, Luc. Am. 29; ὁ ῥ. ‘par excellence’ = Demosthenes, Hermog. Inv. 4.1, al.

2 one who gives sentence, judge

one who gives sentence, judge, S. Fr. 1090.

3 advocate

advocate, POxy. 37.4 (i A.D.), etc.

4 teacher of eloquence, rhetorician

later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, OGI 712 (Egypt), etc.

II oratory

as Adj., ῥ. λόγος oratory, IG 2.1386.7.

In the wild

ῥήτορʼ · rhētorʼ Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 247–248
ῥήτωρ · rhētōr Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1112b (DIORISIS sentence 737)
ῥήτορα · rhētora Aristotle, Politics 1255a (DIORISIS sentence 123)
ῥήτορες · rhētores Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ῥήτωρ · rhētōr Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ῥήτορες · rhētores Aristotle, Rhetoric 2

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Where it came from

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