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δημότης , ου, ὁ, Dor. δα_μότας , also δα_μέτας (q. v.),
A.one of the people, commoner, opp. a man of rank, Tyrt.4.5, Hdt.2.172, 5.11, X. Cyr.2.3.7; “ἄνδρα δ.” S.Aj.1071; “δ. ὅμιλος” Ar.Pax921; “δ. τε καὶ ξένος” E.Supp.895; “δημόται καὶ πένητες” X.Mem.1.2.58:—fem. δημότις , ιδος, opp. βασίλισσα, Plb.22.20.2: pl., opp. εὐγενέσταται, D.C.62.15.
2. = ἰδιώτης, γνωστὰ λέγειν δημότῃσι speak popularly, Hp.VM 2, cf. Acut.8; “ἀμαθίη τῶν δ.” Id.Art.67.
II. one of the same people, fellow-citizen, Pi.N.7.65, E.Alc.1057.
III. at Athens and elsewhere, member of a deme or of the same deme, S.OC78, Susario 1, Pl.Ap.33e, D.18.261, IG22.1172, etc.; “φράτερας καὶ δ.” Cratin.Jun. 9:—so fem. δημότις , ιδος, Ar.Lys.333, Theoc.28.22.
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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