Dio Chrysostom
historical figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 21 anchored passages · author page
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.
So that man fared thus, having become ungrateful concerning the omen.
What, then, did I hope, and what wishing, have I come forward, being such a one at such a season?
Nor again does this escape me, that it is customary with the many to call those in this garb Cynics;
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.