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Headword:
Dêmosthenês
Adler number: delta,454
Translated headword: Demosthenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An Athenian, son of
Demosthenes and Cleobule; rhetor, of the deme Paeania. [He was] painstaking rather than naturally gifted,
Hermippus[1] says; and he lacked self-control with regard to pleasures (the same source says this too). Hence as a young man he was called Batalus[2] (because he often wore women's clothing), and after he was an adult, Argas[3] (that is the name of a snake). He became ambitious to be an orator through hearing the orator
Callistratus speaking on behalf of Oropus.[4] He studied with
Isaeus,[5] the pupil of
Isocrates,and conversed with Zoilus of
Amphipolis[6] when he was a sophist in
Athens, and of
Polycrates[7] and
Alcidamas,[8] the pupil of
Gorgias, and of
Isocrates himself.[9] He engaged in literary studies along with Aesion of
Athens[10] and the philosopher
Theopompus of
Chios.[11] He also studied with
Eubulides the dialectician and
Plato. He died as an exile in Calauria,[12] in the temple of Poseidon, because of Antipater of Macedon; he took the poison he carried in his ring, aged 62.
Dêmosthenês, Athênaios, huios Dêmosthenous kai Kleoboulês, rhêtôr, tôn dêmôn Paianieus: epimelês mallon ê euphuês, hôs Hermippos historei: kai pros tas hêdonas akolastos, hôs kai touto phêsin ho autos. hothen kai neos men ôn Batalos eklêthê, hôs kai gunaikeiai esthêti pollakis chrêsamenos: Argas de meta to eis andras telesai: hoper estin onoma opheôs. epethumêse de rhêtorikês Kallistraton theasamenos ton rhêtora huper Ôrôpiôn legonta. diêkouse de Isaiou, tou Isokratous mathêtou, kai tois logois echrêto Zôïlou tou Amphipolitou, sophisteuontos en Athênais, kai Polukratous kai Alkidamantos, tou Gorgiou mathêtou, kai autou mentoi Isokratous. sunephilologêse de Aisiôni tôi Athênaiôi kai Theopompôi tôi Chiôi philosophôi. diêkroasato de kai Euboulidou tou dialektikou kai Platônos: eteleutêse de phugôn eis Kalabrian en tôi tou Poseidônos hierôi dia ton Makedona Antipatron, prosenenkamenos pharmakon to en tôi daktuliôi, etê biôsas duo kai hexêkonta.
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Keywords: biography; clothing; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; history; philosophy; politics; religion; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 28 June 2000@13:46:42.
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