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δημηγορ-έω ,
A.practise speaking in the assembly, Ar.Eq.956, etc.; “πρὸ τοῦ πολιτεύεσθαι καὶ δ. ἐμέ” D.18.60; “δ. περί τινος” Lys.14.45; “δ. πρός τινας” Pl.Lg.817c; “ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις” Arist.Fr.83: c. acc. cogn., “δ. καὶ συνηγορεῖν λόγους” D.19.15; “δ. λόγον παρά τισι” Id.23.110:—Pass., “τὰ δεδημηγορημένα” public speeches, Id.19.9.
II. esp. make popular speeches, use clap-trap, “ταῦτα δημηγορεῖς” Pl.Grg.482c: abs., ib.503b, Tht.162d, R.350e; “τῶν δημηγοριῶν ὧν δ.” D.21.202; δ. πρὸς χάριν, πρὸς ἡδονήν, Id.3.3,4.38, cf. Hermog.Meth.1.
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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