A.stated, specified, covenanted, μισθῷ ἔπι ῥ. Il.21.445; παρεῖναι ἐς χρόνον ῥ. Hdt.1.77, cf. Aeschin.3.124; ἐν ἡμέραις ῥ. Th.6.29; “ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς γέρασι πατρικαὶ βασιλεῖαι” Id.1.13; ῥ. ἀργύριον a stated sum, Id.2.7, 4.69; ἐπὶ ῥητοῖσι, Att. ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς, on stated terms, on certain conditions, according to covenant, Hdt.5.57, E.Hipp.459, Th.1.122, And.3.22, al.; “παρέσεσθαι εἰς ῥ. ἡμέραν” X.HG3.5.6; ῥ. ἀπόκρισις a distinct, definite answer, Plb.32.6.7: ῥητόν, τό, fixed date for a lawsuit, PSI4.463.14 (iii B.C.), etc.; so perh. “ἀπὸ ῥητῶν” IG12 (9).1273 (Euboea, vi B.C.). Adv. -τῶς expressly, distinctly, Plb.3.23.5, SIG685.77 (ii B.C.), Phld.Rh.1.105 S., 1 Ep.Ti.4.1, Gal.17(2).427: Sup. “ῥητότατα” S.E.M.7.16.
3. of language, in common use (= συνήθης), A.D.Pron. 113.18; “φράσις” Id.Synt.39.15. Adv. “-τῶς” Phld.Rh.1.161 S.
II. that may be spoken or told, “εἰ ῥητόν, φράσον” A.Pr.765; ἦ ῥητόν; ἢ οὐχὶ θεμιτὸν ἄλλον εἰδέναι; S.OT993; αὐδῶν ἀνόσι᾽ οὐδὲ ῥητά μοι ib. 1289; “ῥ. ἄρρητόν τ᾽ ἔπος” Id.OC1001; δεινὸν γάρ, οὐδὲ ῥ. Id.Ph.756; cf. “ἄρρητος” 111.3.
2. that can be spoken or enunciated, “συλλαβή” Pl.Tht.202b, cf. 205d, 205e; “διάλεκτοι” Phld.Rh.1.110S.; “οὐ ῥ. κατ᾽ ἰδίαν αἱ ἐγκλιτικαί” A.D.Pron.36.30; communicable in words, Pl.Ep. 341c.
III. Math., rational, of magnitudes, opp. surds (ἄλογα)“, ῥητὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα” Id.R.546c, Hp.Ma.303b, cf. Euc.10 Deff.3 and 4, Hero *Deff.128; in Metric, ῥ. πούς, opp. ἄλογος, Aristid.Quint.1.14; v. ἄρρητος IV.