Orators
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orators · speakers · advisers · an eloquent orator · counsellors · politicians · statesmen · خطيب مفلق
in the texts
Third Olynthiac
Public speakers and politicians whose counsel shapes, and often corrupts, Athenian policy.
But ever since this breed of orators appeared who ply you with such questions as What would you like?
for you see how the popularity-hunting of some of our orators has led us into this desperate predicament.
Indeed I am given to understand—and so perhaps are you—that the orators of past generations, always praised but not always imitated by those who address you, adopted this very standard and principle of statesmanship.
On the Peace
Public speakers and advisers whose influence over the assembly is central to the argument.
And yet, if you really desired to find out what is advantageous to the state, you ought to give your attention more to those who oppose your views than to those who seek to gratify you, knowing well that of the orators who come before you here, those who say what you desire are able to delude you easily—since what is spoken to win favor clouds your vision of what is best—whereas those who advise y …
for in the past you have formed the habit of driving all the orators from the platform except those who support your desires.
We pretend that we are the wisest of the Hellenes, but we employ the kind of advisers whom no one could fail to despise, and we place these very same men in control of all our public interests to whom no one would entrust a single one of his private affairs.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Practitioners of rhetoric, named among those who take up one of the logical books for their own art.
Along with that, if a man aims to be a strong dialectician, or an eloquent orator, or a poet who splits open his theme, he inclines towards what he seeks and acquires the book in which the canons of that art were composed, so as to become by them in the highest degree of it and the loftiest rank in it.