Aeschines of Miletus

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Aeschines (Gr. Αισχίνης) of Miletus was a con­temporary of Cicero,[1] and a distinguished orator in the Asiatic style of eloquence, which, according to Cicero, "rushes with an impetuous stream. But it is not merely fluent; its language is ornate and polished."[2]

Aeschines is said by Diogenes Laertius to have written on Politics. He died in exile on account of having spoken too freely to Pompey.[3][4][5][6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Aeschines (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, pp. 40 
  2. ^ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1893). The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Macmillan, 444-445. 
  3. ^ Cicero, Brutus 95
  4. ^ Diogenes Laertius ii. 64
  5. ^ Strabo, xiv. p. 635
  6. ^ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae i. 8

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).