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Aeschines

also: Aeschines, Aeschini, Aeschinem

Athenian orator of the fourth century BC, the great rival of Demosthenes, defeated by him in the trial of Ctesiphon. Cicero (Orator 26, 29, 110, 111, 235) repeatedly pairs him with Demosthenes as a model of the smooth and splendid Attic style.

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Mentioned in 6 works (21 mentions)

On Invention rhet · 1 mention
On the Orator rhet · 2 mentions
Brutus rhet · 5 mentions
On the Best Kind of Orators rhet · 6 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 6 mentions
On the Ends of Good and Evil phil · 1 mention

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