person
Isocrates
Athenian rhetorician (436-338 BC), founder of the great Athenian school of rhetoric; teacher of Theopompus, Ephorus, and many leading Greek orators.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.1 §1 the whole perfumery-box of Isocrates
Isocrates was the Athenian master of polished, periodic Greek prose; his "perfumery-box" (myrothecium) stands for stylistic ornament. Cicero contrasts his own perfumed style with Atticus's plainer one.