Aeschines

[es-kuh-neez, ee-skuh-]

noun

1. 389–314 b.c., Athenian orator: rival of Demosthenes.

Aeschines

/ ˈiːskəˌniːz /

noun

1. ?389–?314 _bc , Athenian orator; the main political opponent of Demosthenes

Example Sentences

The Greek statesman and orator Aeschines wrote that, in the art of persuasion, speaking with an arm outside one’s tunic is very bad manners.

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Other declamations, only known from the excerpts in Photius, were imaginary orations put into the mouth of famous persons—Demosthenes advocating the recall of Aeschines from banishment, Hypereides supporting the policy of Demosthenes, Themistocles inveighing against the king of Persia, an orator unnamed attacking Epicurus for atheism before Julian at Constantinople.

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III, 10, mentions 12 per cent., which Aeschines, adv.

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Aeschines is the most theatrical of the Greek orators; he is vehement, and often brilliant, but seldom persuasive.

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The three, however, who are of most importance to the historian are Isocrates, Aeschines and Demosthenes.

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