Aeschines

[ es-kuh-neez or, especially British, ee-skuh- ]

/ ˈɛs kəˌniz or, especially British, ˈi skə- /

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noun

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

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How to use Aeschines in a sentence

It may be urged with some force that the mother of Aeschines introduced foreign, novel and possibly savage rites.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1|Andrew Lang
A further advance was checked by a disgraceful peace engineered by Philocrates and Aeschines in 346.
Authors of Greece|T. W. Lumb
But does Aeschines himself avoid those errors which he reproves in Demosthenes?
Letters of Pliny|Pliny
Finally he may became as famous as Demosthenes or Aeschines.
Essays on the Greek Romances|Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Aeschines is the most theatrical of the Greek orators; he is vehement, and often brilliant, but seldom persuasive.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Aeschines

Aeschines

/ (ˈiːskəˌniːz) /

noun

?389–?314 bc, Athenian orator; the main political opponent of Demosthenes

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