And one of the best and most distinguished sons of that province who found a career at Rome, was the rhetor Quintilian.
The rhetor Aristides once spent a hundred days in a journey at mid-winter from Mysia to Rome.
The rhetor Aristides, in a fierce attack on the Cynic sect, makes it a reproach that they have much in common with "the impious in Palestine.
The magical transformation wrought by Roman rule in a century and a half seized the imagination of contemporaries such as the rhetor Aristides.
The lawgiver and the judge aim at what is good for the mind: the Sophist and the Rhetor aim at what is agreeable to it.
Plato has ranked the Rhetorin the same category as the Despot: a classification upon which I shall say something presently.
Kallikles is not presented by Plato as a Sophist, but as a Rhetor aspiring to active political influence; and taking a small dose of philosophy, among the preparations for that end.
See the Fragments cited by the Rhetor Aristeides, Orat.
Well, then, Gorgias, on what matters will the Rhetor be competent to advise?
Kallikles--rhetor and politician 339 Uncertainty of referring to Nature as an authority.
It is the artisan of persuasion 319 The Rhetor produces belief without knowledge.
Footnote 129: The reply composed by the rhetor Aristeides to the Gorgias of Plato is well deserving of perusal, though (like all his compositions) it is very prolix and wordy.
The Rhetoraccuses the Dialectician of departing from the conditions of reality--of breaking up the integrity of those concretes, which occur in nature each as continuous and indivisible wholes.
The dates of the Epitome and of the Rhetor Graecus are uncertain.
It is incredible that the rhetor supposed he was describing the actual spoken rhythm, in the sense of Aristoxenus; he was giving the quantities of the syllables in the conventional way, and his readers so understood him.
Strong complaint of therhetor Lysias, expressed at the Olympic festival of 384 B.
To Gallio The poem is a letter of condolence to the famous rhetor Junius Gallio, an old friend of Ovid (see at 1).
Jerome says that Arnobius was a distinguished rhetorat Sicca in Africa, who opposed Christianity for a long time.
Yet in later times the grammaticus and rhetor were both well paid and there were some who even became wealthy.
It was only therhetor who was respected and praised in Rome.
The eminent rhetor Gorgias of Leontini, whose peculiar style of speaking is said to have been new to the Athenian assembly, and to have produced a powerful effect, was at the head of this embassy.
The birthplace of the famous rhetor Gorgias was struck out of the list of inhabited cities; its temples were deserted; and its territory had become a part of Syracuse.
It is remarkable that Thucydidês, though he is said, with much probability, to have been among the pupils of Gorgias, makes no mention of that rhetor personally as among the envoys.
Compare the story of the rhetor Skopelianus, in Philostratus, Vit.
Seizure of Lysias the rhetor and his brother Polemarchus.
The rhetor Lysias is said to have sent to him a composed speech for his defence, which he declined to use, not thinking it suitable to his dignity.
It is essential to all artistic vocal performances: it is carefully studied and practised both by the rhetor and the musician.
The Rhetormust know how to apply the one to the other, suitably to each particular case 32 The Rhetorical Artist must farther become possessed of real truth, as well as that which his auditors believe to be truth.
Or does the successful Rhetor succeed only by unsystematic knack?
Now the truerhetor ought to deal with the human mind in like manner.
The Rhetor is enslaved to the opinions of auditors.
The Rhetor does not teach, but persuades persons with minds pre-occupied--guiding them methodically from error to truth 40 He must then classify the minds to be persuaded, and the means of persuasion or varieties of discourse.
The Rhetor is one who does not teach (according to the logical process previously described), but persuades; guiding the mind by discourse to or from various opinions or sentiments.
It was probably the charm of style, common to Demokritus with Plato, which induced the rhetor thus to edit them both.
Demokritus, as edited in the days of Tiberius by the rhetor Thrasyllus: who distributed them into tetralogies, as he also distributed the dialogues of Plato.
An action for recovery of money alleged to be owing was brought in the Athenian Dikastery against AEschines, by a plaintiff, who set forth his case in a speech composed by the rhetor Lysias.
Gorgias the rhetor had been personally present at his magical ceremonies.
Aristeides the Rhetor furnishes a valuable confirmation of the truth of that picture of Sokrates, which we find in the Platonic Apology.
Though Antisthenes thus despised both literature and theory, yet he had obtained a rhetorical education, and had even heard the rhetor Gorgias.
But these are the definitions, not of a rhetor and a thief generally but, of a skilful rhetor and skilful thief.
This celebrated rhetor was an elderly man at the zenith of his glory and influence, during those earlier years which Aristotle passed at Athens before the decease of Plato.
Nor can the dialectician, any more than the rhetor or the physician, always guarantee success.
Footnote 9: It was probably during this period that Aristotle introduced to Alexander his friend the rhetor Theodektes of Phaselis.
It is found in Gale: Rhetor quoque Tullius ingens.
Henry quotes a passage from this, describing the books at York, in which we read this line-- Acer Atistoteles, rhetor atque Tullius ingens.
But unfortunately, the rhetor Dionysius pronounced this oration to be spurious; which introduces a doubt and throws us upon the investigation of collateral probabilities.
He visited the public baths rarely, only when some rhetor happened there who roused admiration and who was spoken of in the city, or when in the ephebias there were combats of exceptional interest.
If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation," said the Rhetor coming closer to Pierre.
The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to all that would be required of him.
When that had been done, theRhetor said: "In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.
No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it," said Pierre, so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was saying.
He listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his ordeal was about to begin.
With bated breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was known).
The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, and began to speak.
Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, which every Freemason should cultivate in himself.
Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor.
Yes, that must be so," thought Pierre, when after these words the Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation.
For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to repeat his question.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhetor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
