Isocrates Comes to Rome as Ambassador
The ambassadors with Menochares arrived in Rome fromReception of the ambassadors of Demetrius. |
Previous career of Isocrates. |
His conduct in Syria. |
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Reception of the ambassadors of Demetrius. |
Previous career of Isocrates. |
His conduct in Syria. |
1 ἐν ταῖς συγκρίσεσιν. But it is very doubtful what the exact meaning of this word is. Alcaeus seems to be the Epicurean philosopher who, among others, was expelled from Rome in B. C. 171. See Athenaeus, xii. 547, who however calls him Alcios. See also Aelian, V. Hist. 9, 12.
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