ῤήτωρ, ῤήτορος, ὁ, ( Ρ᾽ΑΩ), a speaker, an orator (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others): of a forensic orator or advocate, Act_24:1. (Cf. Thomas Magister, under the word (p. 324, 15 edition Ritschl); B. D., under the word , 2.)

ῥήτωρ rhētōr 1x an orator, advocate, Act_24:1

ῥήτωρ , -ορος , ὁ , a public speaker, an orator: Act_24:1 .†

ῥήτωρ [page 563] The special meaning of advocate, barrister, which this word has in Act_24:1 , can be freely illustrated from our documents, e.g. P Oxy I. 37 i. 4 (A.D. 49) (= Selections , p. 48), the report of a lawsuit where the counsel for the plaintiff is introduced with the words Ἀριστοκλῆς ῥήτωρ ὑπὲρ Πεσούριος , and ib . II. 237 vii. 25 (A.D. 186) Δίδυμος ῥήτωρ ἀπεκρείνατο μὴ χώρις λόγου τὸν Σε̣μπρώνιον κεκεινῆσθαι , Didymus, advocate of Sempronius, replied that his client had had good reason for having been provoked (Edd.), P Ryl II. 75 .5, 16 (late ii/A.D.), PSI IV. 293 .26, 33 (iii/A.D.), et saepe .

ῥήτωρ [Etym: ἐρέω, ἐρῶ] "a public speaker, pleader", Lat. orator, Eur. , etc.

ῥήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ a public speaker, an orator: Act.24:1.† (AS)