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
Demosthenes and Aeschines, Lisias and Isaeus, and finally Cicero, avoided it.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
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)
For six years Aeschines avoided action on this notice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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