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

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

With regard to his value as an authority for the history of the period, it is to his speeches, and to those of his contemporaries, Aeschines, Hypereides, Dinarchus and Lycurgus, that we owe our intimate knowledge, both of the working of the constitutional and legal systems, and of the life of the people, at this period of Athenian history.

From Project Gutenberg