Leosthenes

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. “They are tall,” said he, “and comely, but bear no fruit.”

Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθενης; died 323 BC) was an

  • 2 Pausanias, Description of Greece, , , ; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca,
  • 3 Diodorus, xviii. 8-13; Pausanias, .; Plutarch, Lives, "Phocion", ; Diodorus, xviii. 13; Hyperides, Speeches, ""
  • 6 Pausanias,

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