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Callisthenes
[ kuh-lis-thuh-neez ]
noun
- c360–327 b.c., Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
Example Sentences
According to historian Callisthenes, they were saved by a rainstorm and led to the Temple of the Oracle by two crows.
The fact then remains that what the Government need is a friend, a trumpeter, a fugle-man, a pointer-out of merits, a signaller of This-way-to-the-virtues, in short, a Callisthenes.
They should take a lesson from the self-sacrificing zeal of that other Callisthenes who serves a certain London emporium so faithfully, awaking every morning to a new and rapturous vision of its excellence, which nothing can stop the discoverer at once putting into words for the evening papers.
There could be if the Government would appoint a Callisthenes of their own and set the eager pen similarly to work.
Had the Cabinet such a watchful and industrious exponent and commender as Callisthenes, never wearying, except possibly on Sunday, its success would be certain.
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