δ454Δημοσθένης
Demosthenes
An Athenian, son of Demosthenes and Cleobule; rhetor, of the deme Paeania. [He was] painstaking rather than naturally gifted, Hermippus says; and he lacked self-control with regard to pleasures (the same source says…
Δημοσθένης, Ἀθηναῖος, υἱὸς Δημοσθένους καὶ Κλεοβούλης, ῥήτωρ, τῶν δήμων Παιανιεύς· ἐπιμελὴς μᾶλλον ἢ εὐφυής, ὡς Ἕρμιππος ἱστορεῖ· καὶ πρὸς τὰς ἡδονὰς ἀκόλαστος, ὡς καὶ τοῦτό φησιν…
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