Gorgĭas, ae, m., = Γοργίας.
I A famous Greek sophist of Leontini , a contemporary of Socrates , Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 22, 103; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 12, 39 et saep.—
II A rhetorician in Athens , instructor of Cicero's son , and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by Rutilius Lupus, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6.—
III A sculptor of Sparta , Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 49.