Aeschines

American  

[es-kuh-neez, ee-skuh-] / ˈɛs kəˌniz, ˈi skə- /

noun

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

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Aeschines British  

/ ˈiːskəˌniːz /

noun

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

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

When Aeschines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks.'

From The Guardian • May 4, 2010

Similarly, to Plato and to Isocrates, to Aristotle and to Aeschines, if peace is to be extended to all the earth "like a river," Hellas is the fountain from which it must flow.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)

To this slavery Aeschines himself contributed, both in action with Philip of Macedon and in speech.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

For the present, the recovery of some new and fairly extensive fragments of the Alcibiades of Aeschines of Sphettos is the chief addition to our sources of information.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.