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δημο-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for the people, in common use, δ. γράμματα in Egypt, opp. ἱρά, Hdt.2.36; “οἶνος” Plu.Mar.44; of opinions and the like , “ὑπόληψις” popular, Arist.Metaph.989a11; common, ordinary, “ὀνόματα” Luc. Hist.Conscr.22; “ὕλη” Max.Tyr.10.7; “πράγματα μικρὰ καὶ δ.” Plu.2.408c.
2. = δημόσιος, τὰ -κά public affairs, Alciphr.1.4; “δ. λειτουργία” PSI1.86 (iv A. D.).
II. of the populace, one of them, D.21.209. Adv. “-κῶς, ἐσταλμένος” Luc.Scyth.5.
2. on the popular or democratic side, “τὸ σόφισμα δ.” Ar.Nu.205; “ὄρνεα δ.” Id.Av.1584; “τὴν οὐ δ. παρανομίαν” Th.6.28; opp. ὀλιγαρχικός, Isoc.16.37; “λέγεις πόσα δεῖ προσεῖναι τῷ δ.” D.18.122; οὐδὲν δ. πράττειν to do nothing for the people, X.HG2.3.39; “δ. συκοφάνται” Isoc.8.133: generally, popular, “δ. καὶ φιλάνθρωπος” X.Mem.1.2.60; “τῶν μετρίων τινὰ καὶ δ.” D.21.183; “δημοτικὸν τοῦτο δρᾷ” Antiph.190.19: hence, generous, kindly, affable, X.Mem.1.2.60; “δ. τι καὶ πρᾶον” Pl.Euthd.303d; “πρᾶός τις καὶ δ.” Plb. 10.26.1; “δ. καὶ φιλάνθρωπα” Plu.Oth.1. Adv. -κῶς affably, kindly, “καλῶς καὶ δ.” D.24.59; φιλανθρώπως καὶ δ. ib.24: Comp. “-ώτερον” Plu. Demetr.42.
3. of governments, popular, democratic, “πολιτεία” Arist.Pol.1292b13: Comp. “-ώτερα” Id.Ath.22.1.
4. δ. δικαστήριον trying suits between citizens, SIG286.17 (Milet., iv B. C.).
5. Adv. “χρῆσθαι ἀλλήλοις δ.” in a spirit of equality, Arist.Pol.1308a11; δ. πεπαιδευμένοι ib.1310a17; “δ. ἐρίζειν” like a free and independent citizen, Luc.Ner.9.
III. of or belonging to a deme, opp. δημόσιος, Lexap. D.43.71; “ἱερά” Hsch. s.v. δημοτελῆ.
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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