...Isocrates did at the news from Chaeronea: 97 "Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him — as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to Liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." As at Pharsalia, where, nearly three centuries later, Caesar became master of Greece and Rome by the...

...And left them both, more in himself content ; Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent ; Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father nourished, yet by you, Madam, me...

...writings furnished models that Isocrates formed his pupils. Isocrates was ninety-eight years of age when "That dishonest victory at Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, killed with report that old man eloquent". His influence lives to-day in the language we write and speak. "That Isocratic style", writes Jebb,...

...And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent, Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks...

...knew personally many officers and savans3 in both. 1 ' Panathenaikos,' XII. 10. 2 Sonnet X. : " As that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." 8 " Officers and savans " : — Ctesias held the latter character, Xenophon united both, in the earlier...

...B. c. 338. It was the birthplace of Plutarch. Milton in one of his sonnets alludes to the place : " That dishonest victory. At Chaeronea fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent." Isocrates is the old man eloquent thus alluded to. Chalcidice. A peninsula in Macedonia, between the...