Claudius Apollinaris=, bishop of Hierapolis, and the rhetorician =Miltiades of Athens= addressed very famous apologies to the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Gaza=, a disciple of the Neo-Platonist Hierocles and a rhetorician in Alexandria, about A.
Longinus himself was the nephew and heir of Fronto, a Syrian rhetorician of Emesa.
He is mentioned with distinction as a learned Greek rhetorician and grammarian, and was the author of numerous works, frequently referred to by Plutarch and other later writers.
But power was dearer to the valiant Frank than a name; and he made his creature, the rhetorician Eugenius, the nominal emperor of the West.
Roman sophist and rhetorician, son or pupil of the rhetorician Demetrianus.
Epidius, who wrote some treatises in which trees are represented as speaking; and the period in which he flourished, agrees with that assigned to the rhetoricianhere named by Suetonius.
The rhetorician Dionysius of Magnesia had been with Cicero during his tour in Asia.
It is indeed not in the remotest degree as a rhetorician that he arrests us in these unique tales.
He was," says Professor Saintsbury, "a rhetorician (i.
With this wail the thin, lamentable voice of the desiccated rhetorician ceases.
Good ways of feeling are more safe than law: No rhetorician can upset the one; The other he may tumble upside down With words, and do it often grievous wrong.
Whether the fluent rhetorician foresaw his present position, whether perched on his slender ledge of power he now enjoys it, we need not stop to consider.
It was the celebrated rhetorician Giulio Cammillo, however, who appears to have popularized Hermogenes in the sixteenth century, by translating the Idea into Italian, and by expounding it in a discourse published posthumously in 1544.
They both belonged to the third century before our era, but the bombastic style and numerous errors incline us to believe that the little work must have been from the pen of some unknown rhetorician of a later date.
But he is, on the whole, more essentially a great rhetoricianthan a great poet.
The difficulty is often felt of distinguishing between a powerful rhetorician and a genuine poet, and it is felt particularly in the case of Juvenal.
Flechier is somewhat more archaic in style than Bossuet or Fenelon, and he is also more definitely a rhetorician than either.
Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate, was born of an Italian family at Cirta in Numidia.
But about good taste norhetorician or philosopher has, so far, produced a definite treatise.
In his numerous writings we find freely used a fully developed vocabulary, which is completely adequate for the purposes of the professional rhetorician and the broad literary critic” (Larue van Hook Metaphorical Terminology, etc.
The minute care with which he worked out each vein of thought and spun each thread of sentiment, was that of the rhetorician rather than the poet.
Such shades of difference as we perceive in them, indicate the rhetorician seeking to set forth his motive, rather than the lover pouring out his soul.
The rhetorician Peter, who had boldly rebuked the Gothic King for the murder of his benefactress, and had on his master's behalf denounced a truceless war against him, still lingered at his Court.
Meanwhile Peter, a rhetorician and an ex-Consul, was travelling from Constantinople with a commission the character of which was being constantly changed by the rapid current of events.
On this last point I will translate a remarkable sentence from the Greek rhetorician Aristides, [Note.
After that, I will show you as we go along some practical illustrations, add a few verbal precepts, and before set of sun you shall be as superior a rhetorician as myself, the absolute microcosm of your profession.
To a rhetorician who had given a very poor declamation he recommended constant practice.
Him seek; trust yourself to him, and you shall be in a trice rhetorician and man of note, and in his own great phrase, King of Words, mounted without an effort of your own upon the chariot of discourse.
But you wish to be a rhetorician yourself; well, you could have applied in no better quarter; my dear young friend, you have only to follow my instructions and example, and keep carefully in mind the rules I lay down for your guidance.
What was absurd in the more vigorous manifestations of the spirit does not vanish when its energy is lowered, and the rhetorician takes the place of the poet.
The truth seems to be that Massinger is subject to an illusion natural enough to a man who is more of the rhetorician than the seer.
The rhetorician Dion Chrysostom came from Prusa in Bithynia, the satirist Lucian from Samosata in Commagene on the borders of the Euphrates.
So we must not be deceived by the oratorical effects {204} of a rhetorician like Arnobius or by the Ciceronian periods of a Lactantius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhetorician" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: pedant; rhetorician; stylist
