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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek philosopher whose teachings were central to the founding of the Cynic school.
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Examples
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A few lines from Plutarch's Lives speak volumes: It was not said amiss by Antisthenes when people told him that one Ismenias was an excellent piper.
Bruce Fein: At the Edge of Self-Destruction Bruce Fein 2011
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Antisthenes they were what the crown is to the king, the cloak of purple to the general, the cowl to the priest, the trumpet to the augur.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Symposium of Plato that compares Socrates (and three other philosophers, Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Epictetus) to a Silenus, unprepossessing in outward appearance but inwardly beautiful and morally admirable.
Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008
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Antisthenes they were what the crown is to the king, the cloak of purple to the general, the cowl to the priest, the trumpet to the augur.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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You have not forgotten (interposed Antisthenes), perhaps, that besides yourself there is not a rhapsodist who does not know these epics?
Symposium 2007
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And when these propositions were agreed to also, he turned about and said: Just such a man, I take it, is before you in the person of Antisthenes!
Symposium 2007
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Antisthenes, who made virtue sufficient to felicity?
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Antisthenes replied: How absolutely true to your own character, arch go-between!
Symposium 2007
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Antisthenes sprang to his feet at once, and with the manner of a cross-examiner demanded: Do human beings seem to you to harbour justice in their souls, or in their purses,117 Callias?
Symposium 2007
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But here Antisthenes, appealing to Philippus, interposed: You are a man full of comparisons. 254
Symposium 2007
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