- Aeschines of Miletus
Aeschines (Gr. "polytonic|Αισχίνης") of
Miletus was a contemporary ofCicero , [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Aeschines (2)
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 40
publisher =
place =
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0049.html ] and a distinguishedorator in the Asiatic style of eloquence, which, according to Cicero, "rushes with an impetuous stream. But it is not merely fluent; its language is ornate and polished." [cite book
last = Jebb
first = Richard Claverhouse
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos
publisher = Macmillan
date = 1893
location =
pages = 444-445
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=So0NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA445&dq=aeschines+miletus#PPA445,M1
doi =
id =
isbn = ]Aeschines is said by
Diogenes Laertius to have written on Politics. He died inexile on account of having spoken too freely toPompey . [Cicero , "Brutus" 95] [Diogenes Laertius ii. 64] [Strabo , xiv. p. 635] [Seneca the Elder , "Controversiae" i. 8]References
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