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id. sterling. This Gorgias, it seems, was at the head of tbe em- bassy which the Leontines sent to Athens, the second year of the eighty eighUi Olympiad^ to desire their assistance against the Syracusans. In the drst audience he bad of the Athenians his eloquence, or rather the noveKy of it, so enchftnted that people, who were great admirers of both that they were unfortunately prevailed on to engage in the Sicilian war, tbe event of which gave them so fatal a blow they could never recover it. ...Diodcnrus Siculus says also that he was the inventor dT the art of rhetoric, and the first who made use of studied figures and laboured an- titheses of equal length, and the same termination. This manner of •peaking, the same author says, pleased at first fVom its novelty, but was afterward looke*^ on as affected, and, if firequently practised, ridicu- dt;y Google 110 XENOPHON ON THE EXPEDITION sliowed that he did not desire to gain any of them through injustice ; but that he ought to attain them with justice and honour, and not otherwise.
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