Pytheas
Family: Greece · Role: orator · First appears: Demosthenes
Demosthenes
- rivals with Demosthenes “Phylarchus says that in Arcadia there happened a rencounter between Pytheas and Demosthenes, which came at last to downright railing, while the one pleaded for the Macedonians, and the other for the Grecians.”
- enemies with Demosthenes “Phylarchus says that in Arcadia there happened a rencounter between Pytheas and Demosthenes, which came at last to downright railing, while the one pleaded for the Macedonians, and the other for the Grecians”
Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero
- with Demosthenes (Pytheas scoffed at Demosthenes's oratory.) “not smelling of the lamp, as Pytheas scoffingly said, but of the temperance, thoughtfulness, austerity, and grave earnestness of his temper.”
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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.