person
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.