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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 27 | 27 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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427 B.C.When Eucleides was archon in Athens, the Romans elected in place of consuls three military
tribunes, Marcus Manius, Quintus Sulpicius Praetextatus, and Servius Cornelius Cossus. This
year in Sicily the Leontines, who were colonists from
Chalcis but also kinsmen of the Athenians, were
attacked, as it happened, by the Syracusans. And being hardpressed in the war and in danger of
having their city taken by storm because of the superior power of the Syracusans, they
dispatched ambassadors to Athens asking the
Athenian people to send them immediate aid and save their city from the perils threatening it.
The leader of the embassy was Gorgias the rhetorician, who in
eloquence far surpassed all his contemporaries. He was the first man to devise rules of
rhetoric and so far excelled all other men in the instruction offered by the sophists that he
received from his pupils a fee of one hundred minas.Some
1800 dollars, 360 po