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κήρυγ-μα , ατος, τό, (κηρύσσω)
A.that which is cried by a herald, proclamation, S.Ichn.13, etc.; “κ. ποιέεσθαι” Hdt.3.52; ἐκ τοῦ κ. by proclamation, Id.6.78; “πόλει κ. θεῖναι” S.Ant.8; “τῷ κ. ἐμμένειν” Id.OT 350, cf. Ant.454; “κ. ἀνειπεῖν” Th.4.105; “κηρύσσειν” Aeschin.3.154; “κ. γιγνόμενον” D.18.83; announcement of victory in games, D.C.63.14; mandate, summons, S.Ant.162 (anap.); reward offered by proclamation, X.HG5.4.10, Aeschin.3.33.
II. preaching, Ev.Luc. 11.32,al.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 154
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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 83
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    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 350
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.105
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