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He was instructed in oratory by Lysias and Isocrates.

He was afterwards engaged in writing judicial orations for others, and established a rhetorical school at Athens, in which Demosthenes is said to have been his pupil.

The Suda states that Isaeus instructed him free of charge, whereas Plutarch relates that he received 10, 000 drachmas ; and it is further said that Isaeus composed for Demosthenes the speeches against his guardians, or at least assisted him in the composition.

All particulars about his life are unknown, and were so even in the time of Dionysius, since Hermippus, who had written an account of the disciples of Isocrates, did not mention Isaeus at all.