Dio Chrysostom
historical figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 21 anchored passages · author page · the sources this author draws on
I · the speaker · Dion · a demagogue · a stranger · a wandering and prating man · citizen of both cities · our · the philosopher · us
in the texts
Orations
The orator delivering this speech to the citizens of Tarsus, dressed as a Cynic philosopher, offering unsolicited civic counsel.
But since I myself, from the day I sojourned among you, have become a demagogue to you, and that too reproaching such men, nonetheless I will say what I promised, what I know about the present matters.
I am not ignorant, men of Tarsus, that it is the custom both among you and among the rest for citizens to come forward and give counsel — not the chance ones, but the notable and the wealthy, and besides those who have well performed their public services.
But I seem to be advancing too far, and like those who in calm waters swim too far out, not to foresee the future.
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek orator cited on the law of nations being discovered through experience and time.
For this law, as Dio Chrysostom well observes, is the discoveries made by experience and time.