ῥητορική (rhetorike)
No dictionary entry for this form in LSJ or Abbott-Smith, so no definition is given here — usage data below, no definition invented.
53 occurrences of this form in 10 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Gorgias
- Phaedrus
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Meditations
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- Cratylus
- Euthydemus
- Statesman
- Theaetetus
Example passages
…εἶναι καὶ ποιῆσαι ἂν καὶ ἄλλον ῥήτορα· ἡ ῥητορικὴ περὶ τί τῶν ὄντων τυγχάνει οὖσα; ὥσπερ ἡ ὑφαντικὴ περὶ τὴν τῶν ἱματίων ἐργασίαν· ἦ γάρ;…
…ΣΩ. ἆρʼ οὖν οὐ τὸ μὲν ὅλον ἡ ῥητορικὴ ἂν εἴη τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων, οὐ μόνον ἐν δικαστηρίοις καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι δημόσιοι σύλλογοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν ἰδίοις, ἡ αὐτὴ σμικρῶν…
……μεγίστην ὕλην καταγίνεται, τὸν σύμπαντα ἀνθρώπων βίον. εἰκότως οὖν οὐ βραχέσι χρήσεται προοιμίοις, ἀλλὰ γραμματικῇ, γεωμετρίᾳ, ἀστρονομία, ῥητορικῇ, μουσικῇ, τῇ ἄλλῃ λογικῇ θεωρίᾳ πάσῃ, ὧν ἐστι σύμβολον ἡ Σάρας θεραπαινὶς Ἄγαρ, ὡς ἐπιδείξομεν.…