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Definition of Gorgias
1. gorgia [n] - See also: gorgia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgias
Literary usage of Gorgias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"THE EMBASSY OF gorgias. THIS embassy from Sicily to Athens is of high ...
Thucydides does not mention gorgias; it was not at all his way to do so. ..."
2. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1872)
"gorgias of Leontini (in Sicily), who came to Athens as embas- Bador from his native
... 505 d, ho was still living when the Platonic dialogue gorgias was ..."
3. The works of Plato: a new and literal version, by H. Cary (H. Davis, G. Burges). by Plato (1848)
"Socrates, not satisfied with this, as being no answer at all, begs gorgias himself
to answer. He says, that rhetoric is the art he professes, and that he is ..."
4. Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy by Theodor Gomperz (1905)
"He desires to put a question to gorgias, which the latter can the less decline
to answer as he has a moment ago publicly announced his readiness to reply to ..."
5. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"Sooner or later after his first visit,1 gorgias seems to have betaken himself
permanently to Greece Proper, where he wandered through the cities as a ..."
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