demosthenes in English

1. Another nickname of Demosthenes was "Argas."

2. But Aischines expressly excludes that explanation for Demosthenes.

3. Demosthenes was orphaned at the age of seven.

4. 11 But Aischines expressly excludes that explanation for Demosthenes.

5. These developments worried Philip and increased his anger at Demosthenes.

6. Demosthenes dealt in policies and ideas, and war was not his business.

7. Demosthenes decided to prosecute his wealthy opponent and wrote the judicial oration Against Meidias.

8. Demosthenes celebrated Philip's assassination and played a leading part in his city's uprising.

9. And then they'd listen to Demosthenes, and they'd say, "Let's march."

10. In response, Demosthenes delivered the Second Philippic, a vehement attack against Philip.

11. Demosthenes delivered On the Chersonese and convinced the Athenians not to recall Diopeithes.

12. Question was asked of Demosthenes; what was the chief part of an orator?

13. Demosthenes wrote that Athens imported about 400,000 medimns (63,000 tons) of grain annually from the Bosporus.

14. And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes.

15. Take Demosthenes, a political leader and the greatest orator and lawyer in ancient Greece.

16. Great thinkers such as Perikles and Demosthenes spoke to the civil assemblies held at the Pnyx Hill.

17. Remember that 8)Demosthenes and Winston Churchill both used pebbles in their mouths while practising their speaking.

18. It has also been said that Demosthenes paid Isaeus 10,000 drachmae (somewhat over 1.5 talents) on the condition that Isaeus should withdraw from a school of rhetoric which he had opened, and should devote himself wholly to Demosthenes, his new pupil.

19. Tsatsos and the philologist Henri Weil believe that there is no indication that Demosthenes was a pupil of Plato or Isocrates.

20. Demosthenes escaped to a sanctuary on the island of Kalaureia (modern-day Poros), where he was later discovered by Archias, a confidant of Antipater.

21. By a thorough analysis of some most typical speeches from Demosthenes, the author chooses four important aspects to expatiate on this subject.

22. " But it is said that in Ancient Greece when Demosthenes spoke to his audiences, people turned to each other and didn't say "Great speech.

23. If you attempt to manipulate public opinion to force me to do so, I will expose your identity as both Locke and Demosthenes.

24. As Demosthenes, the orator, explained it: "We have prostitutes for our pleasure, concubines for our health, and wives to bear us lawful offspring."

25. Demosthenes was admitted to his deme as a citizen with full rights probably in 366 BC, and he soon demonstrated an interest in politics.

26. Demosthenes, Athenian statesman who laboured to improve his skills at oratory, would repeat to himself any lengthy speech he heard, revising and embellishing it.

27. In the case of Aristion, a youth from Plataea who lived for a long time in Demosthenes' house, Aeschines mocks the "scandalous" and "improper" relation.

28. Longinus likened Demosthenes to a blazing thunderbolt, and argued that he "perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed".

29. When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory he answered, "'action"; and which was the second, he replied, "action"; and which was third he still answered, "action."

30. According to Jacqueline de Romilly, a French philologist and member of the Académie française, the threat of Philip would give Demosthenes' stances a focus and a raison d'être (reason for existence).

31. It is not surprising that the Greek orator Demosthenes (c 384–322 BC) was reputed to have practiced his diction and volume along the seashore by placing pebbles in his mouth.

32. For Darius Demosthenes, who has been living at this facility for six weeks, it is actually the promised macaroni and cheese that will help him most feel at home this Thanksgiving.

33. In what Cawkwell describes as his proudest moment, Demosthenes alone counseled against despair, and proposed that the Athenians should seek an alliance with the Thebans; his decree was passed, and he was sent as ambassador.