Aeschines
Americannoun
noun
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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
We know that Aeschines was a disciple of Socrates, and the tradition of antiquity was that his dialogues gave the most faithful picture of the man as he really was.
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.
The issues were thus joined between Aeschines and Demosthenes for one of the most celebrated forensic contests in history.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
Eleven envoys, including Philocrates, Aeschines, and Demosthenes, were sent to Philip in February 346 B.C.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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