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‖ demos|ˈdiːməs|
Occas. demus. pl. -i.
[a. Gr. δῆµος district, people.]
1. One of the divisions of ancient Attica; = deme2 1.
1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece 19 (Stanford) A demos or borough-town. Ibid. 36 Hipparchus erected them in the demi or borough-towns.
2. The people or commons of an ancient Greek state, esp. of a democratic state, such as Athens; hence, the populace, the common people: often personified.
1831Westm. Rev. Jan. 245 The aristocracy have had their long and disastrous day; it is now the time of the Demos. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxvi, The self-acting Dêmos assembled in the Pnyx. 1886Tennyson Locksley Hall 60 Yrs. After 90 Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood. |