Isaeus, one of the ten Attic orators, born at Chalcis, flourished in the first half of the 4th century B. C. He went at an early age to Athens, was instructed in oratory by Lysias and Isocrates, composed judicial orations for others, and founded a school of rhetoric in which Demosthenes is said to have studied. In antiquity 64 orations were ascribed to him, of which 11 are extant, all relating to disputed inheritances. The best separate edition is that by Schomann (8vo, Greifswald, 1831). There is an English translation by Sir William Jones (London, 1794).

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Isaeus, one of the ten Attic orators, born at Chalcis, flourished in the first half of the 4th century B. C. He went at an early age to Athens, was instructed in oratory by Lysias and Isocrates, composed judicial orations for others, and founded a school of rhetoric in which Demosthenes is said to have studied. In antiquity 64 orations were ascribed to him, of which 11 are extant, all relating to disputed inheritances. The best separate edition is that by Schomann (8vo, Greifswald, 1831). There is an English translation by Sir William Jones (London, 1794).