Aeschylus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Aeschylus, i, m., = Αἰσχύλος.

I The first great tragic poet of Greece , the originator of the Greek drama , Hor. A. P. 278; Cic. Tusc. 2, 10.—

II A rhetorician of Cnidos , a contemporary of Cicero , Cic. Brut. 95.