Gorgias

a celebrated Greek rhetyrician and sophist, of the time of So crates; born in Leontinf, Sicily. about 485 B. c. He came to Athens as amba ador from his native city ix 427 8B. ©., subsequently settled in Greece, and, becoming famous as 2 teacher of eloquence, traveled from place to place, acquiring wealth as well as fame. He died in Lari a, The aly, about 380