DEMOSTHENES
\dɛmˈə͡ʊsthənˌiːz], \dɛmˈəʊsthənˌiːz], \d_ɛ_m_ˈəʊ_s_t_h_ə_n_ˌiː_z]\
Definitions of DEMOSTHENES
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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An Athenian orator; born about 384 B. C.; died at Calauria, 322 B. C. Necessity drove him to take up the business of writing pleas and defenses of suitors and defendants in the law courts; afterward he appeared himself in the courts and the assemblies, and became a foremost leader of the party of independence against the designs of Philip of Macedon. The "Olynthiacs" and the "Philippics" were part of this warfare; and his greatest speech, "On the Crown", was a vindication of his course. Sixty orations ascribed to him are extant, but some of them are spurious.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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