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Tisias the very best education in rhetoric of which I am capable, on the condition that he would at some point in his career pay my tuition.
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Tisias contracted to pay Corax only after he had actually won a law suit.
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Like many young men with an appetite for worldly success, Tisias sought training from Corax in the hope of being able to sue his way to wealth and influence.
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Verdict is a play on words: Corax means "crow"; Tisias means "eggs"
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Tisias does not win his case, that would show him to be a poor, or rather bad, student.
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Years went by and Tisias brought no suits against anyone.
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Tisias: Your Honors, I stand before you today in humility of spirit and purity of motive.
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Tisias was the first who collected the laws of eloquence, of which nature gives the first rules.
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Lycomedes and Tisias the son of Tisimachus, encamped with the
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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It was Tisias, his head half bashed in as Zeno's had been.
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