ῥήτωρ

A. public speaker, μύθων ῥήτορες E. Hec. 124 (anap.), cf. Fr. 597.4, Isoc. 8.129, Arist. Top. 149b25, Phld. Rh. 2.272S., Plu. 2.131a, etc.; esp. at Athens, οἱ ῥήτορες the public speakers in the ἐκκλησία, Ar. Ach. 38,680, Eq. 60, 358, al., Th. 8.1, And. 3.1, Lys. 30.22, etc.; sg. prob. in IG 12.45.21; οἱ δέκα ῥ. the Ten Attic Orators, Luc. Am. 29; ὁ ῥ. 'par excellence' = Demosthenes, Hermog. Inv. 4.1, al.

2. one who gives sentence, judge, S. Fr. 1090.

3. advocate, POxy. 37.4 (i A.D.), etc.

4. later, teacher of eloquence, rhetorician, OGI 712 (Egypt), etc.

II. as Adj., ῥ. λόγος oratory, IG 2.1386.7.