speech-writer

Updated: May 26, 2025

After receiving the instructions of some of the most celebrated sophists of the day, he became himself a speech-writer and professor of rhetoric; his weakly constitution and natural timidity preventing him from taking a part in public life. He made away with himself in 338, after the fatal battle of Chaeronea, in despair, it is said, of his country's fate.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest