Aesion

Aesion

Aeson (Gr. polytonic|Αισίων) was an Athenian orator, and a contemporary of Demosthenes, with whom he was educated. [Suda, "s.v." polytonic|Δεμοσθένης] To what party he belonged during the Macedonian time is uncertain. When he was asked what he thought of the orators of his time, he said, that when he heard the other orators, he admired their beautiful and sublime conversations with the people, but that the speeches of Demosthenes, when read, ex­celled all others by their skillful construction and their power. [Hermippus, "ap. Plut. Dem." 10] Aristotle mentions a beautiful ex­pression of Aesion. [Aristotle, "Rhetoric (Aristotle)" iii. 10] [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
author-link =
contribution = Aesion
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 46
publisher =
place =
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0055.html ]

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