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λεκτικός , ή, όν,
A.good at speaking, able to speak, X.Mem.4.3.1, Cyr. 5.5.46 (Sup.); ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) the art of speaking, Pl.Plt.304d.
II. suited for speaking, οἱ λ. τῶν λόγων speeches in common colloquial style, opp. ποιητικῶς συγκείμενοι, D.61.2; “μάλιστα λ. τῶν μέτρων τὸ ἰαμβεῖόν ἐστι” Arist.Po.1449a24, cf. Rh.1408b33. Adv. -κῶς in prose, D.H.Comp.25.
2. related to expression, stylistic, ὁ λ. τόπος the province of expression, ib.1, 4; opp. πραγματικός, of style, opp. matter, “ἀρεταί” Id.Pomp.1; “μέρος” Id.Th.34.
III. Adv. -κῶς with the force of a word, of the termination -θεν, A.D.Adv.195.16; verbally, Stoic.3.214.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1449a.24
    • Demosthenes, Erotic Essay, 2
    • Plato, Statesman, 304d
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.5.46
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.3.1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 34
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 25
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 4
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 1
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