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Gorgĭas , ae, m., = Γοργίας.
I. A famous Greek sophist of Leontini, a contemporary of Socrates, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 22, 103; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 12, 39 et saep.—
II. A rhetorician in Athens, instructor of Cicero's son, and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by Rutilius Lupus, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6.—
III. A sculptor of Sparta, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 49.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.21.6
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.22
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.49
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.1
    • Cicero, Brutus, 8.30
    • Cicero, Orator, 12.39
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 1.5
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