Look up: sophists

1. Sophists
   professional traveling teachers of rhetoric and other subjects, noted for their ingenuity and speciousness.
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2. Sophists
   Sophists (sof'ists) , originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. B.C.) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The term was given as a mark of respect. Protagoras was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment fo...
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3. Sophists
   (5th Cent B.C.) Wandering teachers who came to Athens from foreign cities, and sought to popularize knowledge. They filled a need felt in Greece at this time for a general dissemination of that scientific knowledge which had previously been more or less privately cultivated in learned societies. Now...
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