δῆμος
Etym. deriv. uncertain
I. "a country-district, country, land", Hom.
II. "the people of a country, the commons", Lat. plebs, δήμου ἀνήρ, opp. to βασιλεύς, Il., etc.; of a single person, δῆμος ἐών being "a commoner", Il.:—in historians, "the commons, commonalty", opp. to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, οἱ παχέες, οἱ δυνατοί, Hdt., Thuc.; of "soldiers", opp. to officers, Xen.
2. like πλῆθος, "the commons, the democracy", opp. to οἱ ὀλίγοι, Hdt., Ar., etc.
III. in Attica, δῆμοι, οἱ, "townships or hundreds", = doric κῶμαι, Lat. pagi, ancient divisions of the county, being (in the time of Hdt.) 100 in number, 10 in each φυλή.