Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ῥῆσις

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A.saying, speech, “μύθων καὶ ῥήσιος” Od.21.291; “ῥ. ἀγγελῶν” Pi.N. 1.59; καταπλέξαι τὴν ῥῆσιν end one's speech, Hdt.8.83; “ῥ. βραχεῖα” S.Fr.64; “ξυνεχής” Th.5.85; “μακρὰν ῥ. οὐ στέργει πόλις” A.Supp.273; “εἰπεῖν ῥ. οὐ θρῆνον θέλω” Id.Ag.1322; “ῥ. λέγειν ἀμφί τινος” Id.Supp.615, cf. S.Fr.142.20; “περὶ σμικροῦ πράγματος ῥ. παμμήκεις ποιεῖν” Pl.Phdr. 268c; “μακρὰν ῥ. ἀποτείνειν” Id.R.605d, Luc.Prom.6; ἡ ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥ. the Scythian answer, Hdt.4.127 (a phrase that became proverbial, cf. Plu.Prov.1.62; prob. interpol. in Hdt.).

2. resolution, declaration, Λακεδαιμονίων ῥ. Hdt.1.152, cf. Crates Com.56, IG l.c.

3. speaking, opp. reading (ἀνάγνωσις), D.H.Isoc.2 (Wolf, for χρήσεως).

II. tale, legend, ἀνθρώπων παλαιαὶ ῥ. Pi.O.7.55.

III. expression or passage in an author, esp. speech in a play, Ar.Nu.1371, V.580, Ra. 151, Men.Epit.585: pl. in Ephipp.16.3, D.18.267; “ῥ. τινὲς τῶν Ἀριστοφανείων” Plu.2.712d; esp. of the dramatic parts of epic poetry, Phot.

IV. manner of speaking, style, ἡ κατὰ πεζὸν ῥ. prose, Longin. Proll.Heph.1.3.

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 (18):
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 273
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 615
- Aristophanes, Frogs, 151
- Aristophanes, Wasps, 580
- Demosthenes, On the Crown, 267
- Herodotus, Histories, 8.83
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.152
- Herodotus, Histories, 4.127
- Plato, Republic, 605d
- Plato, Phaedrus, 268c
- Thucydides, Histories, 5.85
- Homer, Odyssey, 21.291
- Sophocles, Ichneutae, 142.20
- Sophocles, Ichneutae, 64
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1322
- Aristophanes, Clouds, 1371
- Lucian, Prometheus, 6
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, 2

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