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Gorgiās, Gorgiae

Gorgias

Γοργίας

noun (m., 1^st Greek declension)

A famous Greek sophist of Leontini, a contemporary of Socrates
A rhetorician in Athens, instructor of Cicero's son, and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by
A sculptor of Sparta

Abbreviations

Gorgias, ae, m., = Γοργίας. A famous Greek sophist of Leontini, a contemporary of Socrates, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 22, 103; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 12, 39 et saep.

— A rhetorician in Athens, instructor of Cicero's son, and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by Rutilius Lupus, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6.

— A sculptor of Sparta, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 49.