LOGOI

The corpus record

ῥητορ-ικός

retorikos

oratorical

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Where it lives

  • Gorgias 107 · 40.66/10k
  • Phaedrus 21 · 12.63/10k
  • Rhetoric 35 · 8.14/10k
  • Menexenus 3 · 6.24/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 44 · 4.11/10k
  • Ars Poetica 3 · 2.97/10k
  • Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
  • De Interpretatione 1 · 1.61/10k
  • Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k
  • Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
  • Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
  • Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

oratorical, rhetoric, an oratorʼs, against an orator

oratorical, ἡ ῥητορική (sc. τέχνη) rhetoric, Pl. Phdr. 266d, Phld. Rh. 1.187 S.; τὸ ῥ. Pl. Phdr. 266c, Plt. 304e; τὰ ῥ. D.L. 4.49, etc.; ῥ. δειλίαν ὁ δημόσιος καιρὸς οὐκ ἀναμένει an oratorʼs timidity, Aeschin. 3.163; ῥ. γραφή an indictment against an orator (παρανόμων), Is. Fr. 64 S. Adv. -κῶς Pl. Grg. 471e, Aeschin. 1.71, Arist. Po. 1450b8, Phld. Rh. 2.134 S.: Comp., -ώτερον λέγεσθαι D.H. Is. 8.

2 skilled in speaking, fit to be an orator

of persons, skilled in speaking, fit to be an orator, Isoc. 3.8, Pl. Phdr. 260c, 272d, al.; φύσει ῥ. ib. 269d, etc.; σχολαστικὸς ῥ. OGI 693 (Egypt).

b student

student, Lib. Or. 14.62.

3 belonging to a

belonging to a ῥήτωρ, δοῦλος Stud.Pal. 1.67.289 (i A.D.).

In the wild

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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.

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