Isocrates

[ ahy-sok-ruh-teez ]

/ aɪˈsɒk rəˌtiz /

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noun

436–338 b.c., Athenian orator.

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How to use Isocrates in a sentence

In practice as distinct from theory, Isocrates probably had an influence more direct and intense, but briefer.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance|Donald Lemen Clark
He tries to minimise the evidence, remarking that Isocrates promises the very same rewards to all who live justly and righteously.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1|Andrew Lang
Together with the historian Theopompus he was a pupil of Isocrates, in whose school he attended two courses of rhetoric.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various
Those of Aristotle are of questionable genuineness, but we can rely, at any rate in part, on those of Isocrates and Epicurus.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various

The chief writer of this Pan-Hellenic movement was Isocrates.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells

British Dictionary definitions for Isocrates

Isocrates

/ (aɪˈsɒkrəˌtiːz) /

noun

436–338 bc, Athenian rhetorician and teacher

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