Aeschines of Miletus

Aeschines of Miletus

Aeschines (Gr. "polytonic|Αισχίνης") of Miletus was a con­temporary of Cicero, [Citation
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Aeschines is said by Diogenes Laertius to have written on Politics. He died in exile on account of having spoken too freely to Pompey. [Cicero, "Brutus" 95] [Diogenes Laertius ii. 64] [Strabo, xiv. p. 635] [Seneca the Elder, "Controversiae" i. 8]

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