Isoc´rates

A celebrated orator, son of a musical instrument maker at Athens. He opened a school of eloquence at Athens, where he was distinguished for the number, character, and fame of his pupils. He was intimate with Philip of Macedon, but the aspiring ambition of Philip displeased I so crates, and the defeat of the A then i ans at Chærone a had such an effect on him that he did not long survive it. He died, after being four days without taking any aliment, in his ninety-ninth year, about 338 years B.C. He was honored after death by the erection of a brazen statue to his memory by Timotheus, one of his pupils, and A phare us, his adopted son. Milton, in one of his sonnets, speaks of him as “that old man eloquent” when alluding to his death as being caused by the news of the battle of Chærone a.