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ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.)

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ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.)

ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.) , See also:

Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his See also:

time, was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Isocrates and a See also:

CON

con-temporary of See also:

DEMOSTHENES

Demosthenes. He is known to us chiefly from the speech of Demosthenes, in which he was accused of illegality in proposing the usual See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of a See also:

CROWN

crown to the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of Five See also:

HUNDRED

Hundred at the expiration of its See also:

TERM

term of See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office. Androtion filled several important posts, and during the Social See also:

War was appointed extraordinary See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner to recover certain arrears of taxes. Both Demosthenes and See also:

Aristotle (Rhet. iii. 4) speak favourably of his See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as an orator. He is said to have gone into See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile at See also:

MEGARA

Megara, and to have composed an See also:

ATTHIS (an adjective meaning " Attic ")

Atthis, or annalistic See also:

account of See also:

ATTICA

Attica from the earliest times to his own days (See also:

PAUSANIAS

Pausanias vi. 7; X. 8). It is disputed whether the annalist and orator are identical, but an Androtion who wrote on See also:

agriculture is certainly a different See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person. See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor Gaetano de See also:

SANCTIS, FRANCESCO DE (1817-1883)

Sanctis (in L'Attide di Androzione e un papiro di Oxyrhynchos, See also:

TURIN

Turin, 1908) attributes to Androtion, the atthidographer, a .4th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

HISTORICAL

historical fragment, discovered by B. P.

Grenfell and A. S. See also:

Hunt (Oxyrhynchos Papyri, vol. v.). Strong arguments against this view are set forth by E. M.

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