oratory
oratory, Pl. Plt. 304a, Phld. Rh. 2.231 S., Plu. Sollert. 2.975c.
II piece of oratory, set speech
piece of oratory, set speech, Isoc. 5.26, 12.2, Arist. Rh. 1356b20 (pl.).
The corpus record
ῥητορ-εία
retoreia · ἡ
oratory, piece of oratory, set speech
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Where it lives
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6 · 0.56/10k
- Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
- Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
- Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥητορείας · rhētoreias Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- ῥητορεῖαι · rhētoreiai Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- ῥητορείας · rhētoreias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2915)
- ῥητορείας · rhētoreias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2922)
- ῥητορείας · rhētoreias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2926)
- ῥητορείας · rhētoreias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2918)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.