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ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDROTION (c. 350 B.c.)  , Greek orator, and one of the leading politicians of his time, was a pupil of Isocrates and a
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con-temporary of
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Demosthenes . He is known to us chiefly from the speech of Demosthenes, in which he was accused of illegality in proposing the usual honour of a
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crown to the Council of Five
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Hundred at the expiration of its
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term of office . Androtion filled several important posts, and during the Social War was appointed extraordinary
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commissioner to recover certain arrears of taxes . Both Demosthenes and Aristotle (Rhet. iii . 4) speak favourably of his powers as an orator . He is said to have gone into exile at
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Megara, and to have composed an Atthis, or annalistic account of
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Attica from the earliest times to his own days (
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Pausanias vi . 7; X . 8) . It is disputed whether the annalist and orator are identical, but an Androtion who wrote on agriculture is certainly a different person . Professor Gaetano de Sanctis (in L'Attide di Androzione e un papiro di Oxyrhynchos,
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Turin, 1908) attributes to Androtion, the atthidographer, a .4th-century
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historical fragment, discovered by B . P . Grenfell and A .

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Hunt (Oxyrhynchos Papyri, vol. v.) . Strong arguments against this view are set forth by E . M .

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