Lysias of Syracuse and then Athens (c. 459-c. 380 BC), the master of plain Attic style and one of the canonical ten Attic orators. Cicero takes him as the type of the spare, polished, simply elegant style throughout the rhetorical works (Brut. 35, 48, 63-67; Orat. 28-32; De opt. gen. or. 9), the model against which Demosthenes is measured.