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See also:ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.) , See also:Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his See also:time, was a See also:pupil of Isocrates and a See also:con-temporary of See also:Demosthenes . He is known to us chiefly from the speech of Demosthenes, in which he was accused of illegality in proposing the usual See also:honour of a See also:crown to the See also:Council of Five See also:Hundred at the expiration of its See also:term of See also:office . See also:Androtion filled several important posts, and during the Social See also:War was appointed extraordinary See also:commissioner to recover certain arrears of taxes . Both Demosthenes and See also:Aristotle (Rhet. iii . 4) speak favourably of his See also:powers as an orator . He is said to have gone into See also:exile at See also:Megara, and to have composed an See also:Atthis, or annalistic See also:account of See also:Attica from the earliest times to his own days (See also:Pausanias vi . 7; X . 8) . It is disputed whether the annalist and orator are identical, but an Androtion who wrote on See also:agriculture is certainly a different See also:person . See also:Professor Gaetano de See also:Sanctis (in L'Attide di Androzione e un papiro di Oxyrhynchos, See also:Turin, 1908) attributes to Androtion, the atthidographer, a .4th-See also:century See also:historical fragment, discovered by B . P . Grenfell and A . S . See also:Hunt (Oxyrhynchos Papyri, vol. v.) . Strong arguments against this view are set forth by E . M . |
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