Aeschines of Miletus
Aeschines of Miletus (Gr. Αἰσχίνης ὁ Μιλήσιος) 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]
References
- ↑ Smith, William (1867). "Aeschines (2)". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 40.
- ↑ Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1893). The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Macmillan. pp. 444–445.
- ↑ Cicero, Brutus 95
- ↑ Diogenes Laertius ii. 64
- ↑ Strabo, xiv. p. 635
- ↑ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae i. 8
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