Demosthenes

(di mäst̸hə nēz′)

384-322 ; Athenian orator & statesman

See Demosthenes in American Heritage Dictionary 4

Greek orator whose reputation is based mainly on his Philippics, a series of orations exhorting the citizens of Athens to rise up against Philip II of Macedon.

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