Isocrates
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noun
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It legally belongs to a foundation he established called Isocrates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Aristotle needed to attract pupils—and while his rival Isocrates was teaching rhetoric, the Lyceum needed to be able to compete.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Candidates for higher education would be expected to have tracts of Cicero, Virgil, Isocrates, and Homer by heart.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
The chief authority for the life of Evagoras is the panegyric of Isocrates addressed to his son Nicocles; see also Diod.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
And it is paralleled by Isocrates, a contemporary of Plato, in those words spoken by the King Nicocles when addressing his governors, “You should be to others what you think I should be to you.”
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
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