Callisthenes

American  

[kuh-lis-thuh-neez] / kəˈlɪs θəˌniz /

noun

1. c360–327 b.c., Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.

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Example Sentences

Two months ago Selfridge's "Callisthenes" hopped the sea, made its debut as an advertisement in New York's Herald Tribune.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "Callisthenes" articles caught British fancy at once, have long been profitable for the store.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Callisthenes was a kinsman and disciple of the other, through whose influence, it is said, he was appointed to attend the king on his Asiatic expedition.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

So also the Chald�ans boasted of their Antiquity; for Callisthenes, the Disciple of Aristotle, sent Astronomical Observations from Babylon to Greece, said to be of 1903 years standing before the times of Alexander the great.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

The fact then remains that what the Government need is a friend, a trumpeter, a fugle-man, a pointer-out of merits, a signaller of This-way-to-the-virtues, in short, a Callisthenes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 21st, 1916 by Various