DEMOS
\dˈɛmə͡ʊz], \dˈɛməʊz], \d_ˈɛ_m_əʊ_z]\
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d[=e]'mos, n. the people, esp. the lower classes.--adj. DEMOT'IC, pertaining to the people: popular: in Egypt. ant., of a kind of writing distinguished from the hieratic, or priestly, and from hieroglyphics. [Gr.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[Gr.] The people, especially the sovereign people of ancient Athens ; often treated as a person by the comic poets.
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The Demoi of Attica were districts or boroughs, into which the members of the tribes were divided. Commonly called Demes by English writers.
By Henry Percy Smith