Similarities between Demosthenes and Isaeos
As regards composition, the likeness consists inLikeness of Demosthenes to Isaeos—in Composition: |
in Treatment of Subject-matter: |
especially of Proof. |
Likeness of Demosthenes to Isaeos—in Composition: |
in Treatment of Subject-matter: |
especially of Proof. |
1 See, e.g., Dem. Or. XXXVI., For Phormio. The ease of Isaeos sometimes tends to be slipshod; that of Demosthenes, never.
2 Cf. Plut. Δημοσθένους καὶ Κικέρ. σύγκρισις, c. 1: Δημοσθένης ...ὑπερβαλλόμενος ἐναργείᾳ μὲν καὶ δεινότητι τοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγώνων καὶ τῶν δικῶν συνεξεταζομένους.
3 See above, p. 285.
4 Theon celebrates the legal learning of Demosthenes, referring to him as an exemplar of argument for the abrogation (ἀνασκευή) of laws—e.g. in the Speeches Against Timokrates, Aristokrates and Leptines (προγυμν. II. p. 166, Sp. Rh. Gr. II. 69): again in I. 150 (ib. p. 61) he adds to these the De Corona and Androtion as proofs that οἱ κάλλιστοι τῶν Δημοσθενικῶν λόγων εἰσιν, ἐν οἷς περὶ νόμου ἢ ψηφίσματος ἀμφισβητεῖται.
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