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Isocrates

American

[ahy-sok-ruh-teez] / aɪˈsɒk rəˌtiz /

noun

436–338 b.c., Athenian orator.

Isocrates British

/ aɪˈsɒkrəˌtiːz /

noun

436–338 _bc , Athenian rhetorician and teacher

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It legally belongs to a foundation he established called Isocrates.

From The Wall Street Journal

As it happened, a brilliant young student in Plato’s school wrote a short work in response to Isocrates’ criticisms: the Protrepticus, a text that became famous in antiquity.

From Scientific American

Candidates for higher education would be expected to have tracts of Cicero, Virgil, Isocrates, and Homer by heart.

From Literature

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 Project Gutenberg

His style is the very opposite of that of Isocrates and the rhetoricians.

From Project Gutenberg

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