Definitions for Aeschines

Aeschines Aes·chi·nes

Spelling: [es-kuh-neez or, esp. British, ee-sk Aeschines is a 9 letter English word.

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Definitions for Aeschines

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  1. 389–314 b.c, Athenian orator: rival of Demosthenes.

Examples for Aeschines

It may be urged with some force that the mother of Aeschines introduced foreign, novel and possibly savage rites.

An oath was then administered, the form of which is preserved to us by Aeschines.

Finally he may became as famous as Demosthenes or Aeschines.

Accused by Aeschines, he delivered his famous Oration on the Crown.

Aeschines by no means bears him out; and Plutarch directly contradicts him.

How then, some may say, was it, that Aeschines speaks of him as a person much to be wondered at for his boldness in speaking?

If so, that was probably because Aeschines had no philosophy of his own.

The backward and barbarous Thracians were therefore trimmed in the roughest way, like Aeschines, with his long gnawed moustache.

Mr Mitford is speaking of one of the greatest men that ever lived, Demosthenes, and comparing him with his rival, Aeschines.

Mr Mitford refers for confirmation of his statement to Aeschines and Plutarch.

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