Same entry in the Synagoge (rho34) and Photius (rho113 Theodoridis). Compare also Hesychius rho280 and rho288.
For the headword see already rho 152. (For the original meaning of r(h/twr as an eloquent person see ps.-Zonaras 1610.12-3.);
[1] The noun sunh/goros defined both a public office and private avocation in Athens; see LSJ s.v. and cf. sigma 1459, sigma 1546, sigma 1547, sigma 1548. The noun is listed as a synonym of prosta/ths (Hesychius s.v. sunh/goros), and of logopoio/s in Hesychius' entry for the latter. See also e.g. Harpocration sigma58 Keaney, Photius sigma780 and sigma781 Theodoridis (with other references there).
[2] See also pi 2194.
[3] Sophocles fr. 1090 Radt (this word only), from an unidentified drama. The noun r(h/twr is not attested in any of Sophocles’ extant tragedies.
[4] For the phrase gnw/mhn a)pofai/nw cf. e.g. Herodotus 1.40.2 (web address 1).