Their principles of interpretation would have been strange and unintelligible to the rhetors Thrasyllus and Dionysius of Halikarnassus--or to the Platonic philosopher Charmadas, who expounded Plato to Marcus Crassus at Athens.
We have here the whole navy of the state, whereby we can insure to ourselves the contributions from our dependencies just as well as if we started from Athens.
I leave to you and to the god, to decide as may turn out best both for me and for you.
The sympathy which the Athenian exiles found at Thebes is attested in a fragment of Lysias, ap.
But let not this abate our courage: for they are only the lesser force, we are the greater and the self-sufficing.
I know but too well, that this altar will be of no avail to me as a defence; but I shall at least make it plain, that these men are as impious towards the gods as they are nefarious towards men.
Arnold, assumes that “to be beaten in a fair race, or when the terms of the match are fair,” causes to the loser the maximum of pain and offence.
For Thrasymachus was a rhetor, who had studied the principles of his art: now we know that these common sentiments of an audience, were precisely what the rhetors best understood, and always strove to conciliate.
Least of all would he have done this, if it be true of him, as Plato asserts of the rhetors and sophists generally, that they thought about nothing but courting popularity, without any sincerity of conviction.
If the line could be clearly drawn between rhetors and sophists, Gorgias ought rather to be ranked with the former.
The different rhetors declaim as follows, making Leonidas the speaker:-- Arellius Fuscus.
These were the rhetors and the sophists; properly speaking distinct, but often confounded under the general name of sophist.
Then I say that the Rhetors possess nothing beyond the very minimum of power.
This last, Polus (continues Sokrates), is the condition of Archelaus, and of despots and Rhetors generally.
How little Plato cared to make his comparisons harmonise with the fact, may be seen by what immediately follows--where he compares the Rhetors to Despots?
Polus then asks him: You say that Rhetoric is a branch of Flattery: Do you think that good Rhetors are considered as flatterers in their respective cities?
It has very little pertinence; because, as a matter of fact, the Rhetors certainly had considerable importance, whether they deserved it or not.
In general, the persons whom Plato ranks as enemies of philosophy are the rhetors and politicians: but the example here chosen is not comprised in either of these classes: it is a semi-philosopher, yet a writer of discourses for others.
This is a mental defect which he pronounces to be universal: belonging not less to men of action like Nikias and Laches, than to Sophists and Rhetors like Protagoras and Gorgias.
Sokrates denies that the Rhetors have any real power, because they do nothing which they really wish.
Rhetors and philosophers penetrated all Europe, going from one city to another giving lectures.
Then the rhetors commenced to multiply, who taught the art of speaking well.
Those who followed them in the first century learned in the schools of the Greek rhetors the long oratorical periods and pompous style.
Just so did the rhetors talk in Rome when Alaric entered it with his Visigoths.
Yet under the terebinth trees of the Esquiline the rhetors of the fifth century let fall thoughts of less vanity.
The Roman priesthood, though they had succeeded, in 161, in getting all Greek rhetors and philosophers expelled from Rome, perceived that a compromise was necessary.
Punic wars, shortly after the death of Ennius, and two years after the famous expulsion of the Greek rhetors and philosophers (161).
The blood spilt because of the narrow-mindedness of the leaders, that blood will cry to heaven, whatever be the absolution granted by the rhetors and by the small church.
Rhetors and some abolitionists of the small church--not Wendell Phillips--still are satisfied with mistakes and disasters, because otherwise slavery would not have been destroyed.
Rhetors and sham-erudites are ecstatic about Burnside's conduct.
Were it not so, how many rhetors would be abolitionists?
Unspeakably worse, is the cold indifference with which many generals, many men in power, the rhetors and the politicians, speak of what is more than a sacrifice in a sacred cause, is an unholy and demoniac waste of human life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhetors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
