Demosthenes, however, he never mentioned at all, although Alexander held him in bitter hatred, and he himself had a private quarrel with him.

Nevertheless, the story of Demosthenes ' relations with Aristarchus is still regarded as more than doubtful, and no other pupil of Demosthenes is known by name.

He modestly took his seat on one of the back benches, till Fox brought him forward, exclaiming, " This is no place for the Irish Demosthenes!

Cicero's fate stands in marked contrast to that of Demosthenes, who suffered no punishment for his philippics.

There were certainly some preliminary skirmishes ; Demosthenes alludes to a " winter battle " and " battle on the river " in his speeches, but no other details are preserved.

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The Athenian Assembly, however, lays aside Philip's grievances against Demosthenes ' conduct and denounce the Peace of Philocrates which has been signed by both sides in 346 BC, an action equivalent to an official declaration of war by Athens against Macedonia.

Later, Sister Carlotta and Bean convince Peter his path to power requires him to reveal himself as the writer behind Locke and Demosthenes and to decline the position of Hegemon because of his age.

Demosthenes argued for a retreat to Athens, but Nicias at first refused.

Demosthenes was orphaned at the age of seven.

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, ( equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes ) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing " except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae " ( 30 minae = ½ talent ).

The courts fixed Demosthenes ' damages at ten talents.

* 413 Nicias and Demosthenes killed at Syracuse

However, Demosthenes and Hippocrates are unable to coordinate their attacks and Hippocrates is defeated at the Battle of Delium by Pagondas of Thebes.

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

But two years afterwards ( 413 BC ) the Athenian party had regained the ascendency ; and when Demosthenes and Eurymedon touched at Thurii, the citizens afforded them every assistance, and even furnished an auxiliary force of 700 hoplites and 300 dartmen.

Finley notes " in Demosthenes ' day there were at least 97 liturgical appointments in Athens for the festivals, rising to 118 in a ( quadrennial ) Panathenaic year.

* ( Demosthenes 18. 158, " Greece has suffered such things at the hands of one person ": the word " one ", henos, occurs in its normal place after the preposition " at the hands of ", but " person " is unnaturally delayed, giving emphasis to " one.

In 1847 large fragments of his speeches, Against Demosthenes and For Lycophron ( incidentally interesting for clarifying the order of marriage processions and other details of Athenian life, and the Athenian government of Lemnos ) and the whole of For Euxenippus ( c. 330 BCE, a locus classicus on eisangeliai or state prosecutions ), were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt.

The sausage seller is not convinced at first but Demosthenes points out the myriads of people in the theatre and he assures him that his skills with sausages are all that is needed to govern them.

Cleon criticized Athenian generals for procrastination and incompetence and he replaced Nicias in time to assist Demosthenes in the victory at the Battle of Sphacteria.

One editor has Demosthenes deliver a short valedictory speech congratulating Agoracritus at the end of the play ( lines 1254-56 )-a speech that is otherwise assigned to the leader of the Chorus.

During his time at Halle he published his commentary on the Leptines of Demosthenes ( 1789 )— which suggested to his pupil, Philipp August Böckh, the Public Economy of Athens — and a little later the celebrated Prolegomena ad Homerum ( 1795 ).

Soon after the death of Demosthenes ( c. 322 BC ), he declined the citizenship offered to him at the instance of Phocion as a reward for his services in negotiating peace with Antipater after Athens ' unsuccessful rebellion.

The Cynicism ( philosophy ) | Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope | Diogenes, pictured by Jean-Léon Gérôme | Gérôme with the large jar in which he lived ; when strangers at the inn were expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes, Diogenes is said to have stuck out his middle finger and exclaimed " this, for you, is the Demagogue # History and definition of the word | demagogue of the Classical Athens | Athenians "

Diogenes Laertius records how the Cynic philosopher Diogenes directed the gesture at the orator Demosthenes in 4th-century BC Athens.

He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes ; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics, while his work on Homeric scholarship is represented by his four-volume edition of the Homeric scholia.

As Chugg says, " If he did persuade Alexander to reach an accommodation with Demosthenes at this critical juncture, as would seem likely from the circumstances, then he was significantly responsible for saving the situation for Macedon in Greece by preventing the revolt of Agis spreading to Athens and her allies.

In this same oration, Demosthenes mentions that Neaira's purchase price ( both at her original purchase by Timanoridas of Corinth and Eucrates of Leucas and her own subsequent purchase of her freedom ) was 30 minas.

Demosthenes at the Seashore, a Royal Academy prize winning drawing, 1888.

Demosthenes surprised them there at night, pretending to be the other Ambraciot army, and killed most of them ; the rest fled to the hills or into the sea where they were captured by the 20 Athenian ships.

An Athenian fleet had been driven ashore at Pylos by a storm, and, at the instigation of Demosthenes, the Athenian soldiers fortified the peninsula, and a small force was left there when the fleet departed again.

For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer ( logographer ) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.

Demosthenes grew interested in politics during his time as a logographer, and in 354 BC he gave his first public political speeches.

In the case of Aristion, a youth from Plataea who lived for a long time in Demosthenes ' house, Aeschines mocks the " scandalous " and " improper " relation.

At the same time, Demosthenes prepared himself for the trials and improved his oratory skill.

Born in Dublin, he was the only son of Dr Philip Francis ( c. 1708-1773 ), a man of some literary celebrity in his time, known by his translations of Horace, Aeschines and Demosthenes.

Demosthenes, commanding the force at Pylos, initially planned to starve the Spartans out rather than attack them, but as time wore on it became clear that the Spartans would be able to hold out for longer than anticipated.

He was one of the first who turned their attention to a scientific cultivation of political oratory ; but excellence in this department of the art was not attained until the time of Demosthenes.

Demosthenes is also implicated in passive homosexuality and the prostitution of youth ( Aiskhines iii 162 ): " There is a certain Aristion, a Plataean ..., who as a youth was outstandingly good-looking and lived for a long time in Demosthenes ' house.

Androtion (; c. 350 BC ), Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his time, was a pupil of Isocrates and a contemporary of Demosthenes.

At this time, Constable also acquired the plaster figures of Demosthenes and Hercules with Cerebus, and plaster busts of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and the Greek poetess Sappho, from the sculptor John Cheere.

At the time of the Athenian expedition to Sicily, 415 BCE, the Metapontines at first, like the other states of Magna Graecia, endeavoured to maintain a strict neutrality ; but in the following year were induced to enter into an alliance with Athens, and furnish a small auxiliary force to the armament under Demosthenes and Eurymedon.