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HYPERIDES

Volume 11 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

an orator of Greece, was the disciple of Plato and Iocrates, and governed the republic of Athens. He defended with great zeal and courage the liberties of Greece; but was put to death by Antipater's order, 322 B.C. He composed many orations, of which only one now remains. He was one of the ten celebrated Greek orators.