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-“1Philiscus: —Of Miletus; orator; disciple of the orator Isocrates; he had formerly been a marvellous flute-player, and therefore Isocrates named him Aulotrypes or Flute-borer... His writings are these: The Milesian Oration, The Amphictyonic, The Art of Rhetoric in two Books, An Answer to Isocrates .2” Suidas Lexicon:
+“1Philiscus: —Of Miletus; orator; disciple of the orator Isocrates; he had formerly been a marvellous flute-player, and therefore Isocrates named him Aulotrypes or Flute-borer... His writings are these: The Milesian Oration, The Amphictyonic, The Art of Rhetoric in two Books, An Answer to Isocrates .2”
+Suidas Lexicon
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-“Timaeus: —Son of Andromachus, of Tauromenium: ...pupil of Philiscus of Miletus... He wrote a History of Italy and Sicily in eight Books, etc.3” Suidas Lexicon:
+“Timaeus: —Son of Andromachus, of Tauromenium: ...pupil of Philiscus of Miletus... He wrote a History of Italy and Sicily in eight Books, etc.3”
+Suidas Lexicon
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 ===== Inscription =====
-“An inscription was written for him by Philiscus the friend of Isocrates and comrade of Lysias, whereby it is proved that he was his senior, as indeed is manifest from what is said by Plato; it is as follows:
+An inscription was written for him by Philiscus the friend of Isocrates and comrade of Lysias, whereby it is proved that he was his senior, as indeed is manifest from what is said by Plato; it is as follows:
-Now glib Thought, daughter of Calliope, wilt thou show what wisdom and mastery are thine; for one that hath adopted a new dress and taken another body in other realms of life4 —for Lysias must thou bring forth, to proclaim his virtues, a hymn that shall live among the dead and be immortal in the darkness, and shall show to all men the love that is in my heart and the virtues which were his that is gone.
+//Now glib Thought, daughter of Calliope, wilt thou show what wisdom and mastery are thine; for one that hath adopted a new dress and taken another body in other realms of life4 —for Lysias must thou bring forth, to proclaim his virtues, a hymn that shall live among the dead and be immortal in the darkness, and shall show to all men the love that is in my heart and the virtues which were his that is gone.//
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+Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators [Lysias]
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-” Plutarch Lives of the Ten Orators [Lysias]
 See also Cic. de Orat. 2. 23. 94, Dion. Hal. Ep. Amm. 2.