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Headword:
*(rh/twr
Adler number: rho,153
Translated headword: orator, speaker
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] advocate,[1] pleader.[2] Also, in
Sophocles,[3] the judge delivering his own opinion.[4]
Greek Original:*(rh/twr: sunh/goros, dikolo/gos. kai\ o( th\n i)di/an a)pofai/nwn gnw/mhn krith\s para\ *sofoklei=.
Notes:
Same entry in the
Synagoge (rho34) and
Photius (rho113 Theodoridis). Compare also
Hesychius rho280 and rho288.
For the headword see already
rho 152. (For the original meaning of
r(h/twr as an eloquent person see ps.-
Zonaras 1610.12-3.);
[1] The noun
sunh/goros defined both a public office and private avocation in
Athens; see LSJ s.v. and cf.
sigma 1459,
sigma 1546,
sigma 1547,
sigma 1548. The noun is listed as a synonym of
prosta/ths (
Hesychius s.v.
sunh/goros), and of
logopoio/s in
Hesychius' entry for the latter. See also e.g. Harpocration sigma58 Keaney,
Photius sigma780 and sigma781 Theodoridis (with other references there).
[2] See also
pi 2194.
[3]
Sophocles fr. 1090 Radt (this word only), from an unidentified drama. The noun
r(h/twr is not attested in any of
Sophocles’ extant tragedies.
[4] For the phrase
gnw/mhn a)pofai/nw cf. e.g.
Herodotus 1.40.2 (web address 1).
Reference:
Radt S. (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, vol. 4, Göttingen 1977
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; law; politics; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 25 March 2007@18:38:07.
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