Gorgias

, a celebrated sophist and orator, son of Carman tides surnamed Leontinus , because born at Leontium in Sicily. He was sent by his countrymen to solicit the a istance of the A then i ans against the Syracusans, and was succe ful in his emba y. He lived to his 108th year, and died B.C. 400. Only two fragments of his compositions are extant. Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 17 .— Cicero , Orator , ch. 22 , . ; De Senectute , ch. 15 ; Brutus , ch. 15 .— Quintilian , bks. 3 & 12.――An officer of Antiochus Epiphanes.――An A then i an, who wrote an account of all the prostitutes of Athens. Athenæus. ――A Maced on i an, forced to war with Amyntas, . Curtius , bk. 7 , ch. 1 .