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The Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace recognised Demosthenes as one of the ten greatest Attic orators and logographers. Longinus likened Demosthenes to a blazing thunderbolt and argued that he “perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed.” Quintilian extolled him as lex orandi … Read more