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Γοργίας
Γοργίας -ου, Gorgias, of Leontini in Sicily, a famous rhetorician of the fifth century B.C. He came to Athens in 427, and earned large fees by his teaching, Proxenus being among his pupils. He maintained that ‘nothing exists; if anything does exist, it cannot be known; even if it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be made clear to others.’

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Gorgias

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Γοργίας
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γοργίας
Headword (normalized/stripped):
γοργιας
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Γοργίας -ου, Gorgias, of Leontini in Sicily, a famous rhetorician of the fifth century B.C. He came to Athens in 427, and earned large fees by his teaching, Proxenus being among his pupils. He maintained that ‘nothing exists; if anything does exist, it cannot be known; even if it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be made clear to others.’
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532
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:anabasis-mather-534
Key:
gorgi/as

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