Demosthenes

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

Dēmosthĕnes, is (gen. i, Cic. Opt. Gen. 5, 14), m.,

I Δημοσθένης, the most celebrated of the Grecian orators , Cic. de Or. 1, 13; 20; id. Brut. 9; Prop. 3 (4), 21, 27; Quint. 10, 1, 76; 12, 10, 23 sq.; Juv. 10, 114 et saep.—Hence,

II Dēmosthĕnĭcus , a, um, adj., Demosthenic : Demosthenicum, quod ter primum ille vocavit (i. e. action ), Aus. Prof. 1, 19.