professional speech writer at Athens whose work is generally thought to reflect the incipient decline of Attic oratory. As a metic, or resident ...
(c. 360-c. 290 BC) Last of the ten Attic Orators, born at Corinth. As a metic (resident alien), he could not speak at Athens, but wrote speeches for others. In the affair of Harpalus he composed the extant prosecution...