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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 73 | 73 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 9 | 9 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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for these are my two instructors, the one in music, the other in rhetoric. So it is not surprising that a man who is trained like me should be clever at speaking. But even a man less well taught than I, who had learnt his music from Lamprus and his rhetoric from Antiphon the Rhamnusian,Antiphon, born in 480 B.C., was the first of the ten great Attic Orators.—even such a one, I say, could none the less win credit by praising Athenians before an Athenian audience.MenexenusWhat, then, would you have to say, if you were required to speak?SocratesNothing, perhaps, myself of my own invention;
and at Artemisium.These battles took place during Xeres' invasion of Greece in 480 B.C. And truly concerning these men also one might have much to relate, regarding the manner of onsets they endured both by land and sea, and how they repelled them; but the achievement I shall mention is that which was, in my judgement, the noblest that they performed, in that it followed up the achievement of the men of Marathon. For whereas the men of Marathon had only proved to the Greeks thus much,—that it was possible to repe