person
Gorgias
also: Gorgias
A rhetoric tutor at Athens useful to the younger Marcus Cicero for daily declamation; Cicero the elder ordered him dismissed in 44 BC, apparently as a bad moral influence. Author of a Greek treatise on figures. Distinct from the classical sophist Gorgias of Leontini.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.21 §6 what you write me about Gorgias
Gorgias was a rhetoric tutor useful for daily declamation, but Cicero the elder had written 'in so many words' (diarrheden) that Marcus dismiss him at once, apparently as a bad influence; the obedient son complied.