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Isaeus (fl. early 4th century BC) was a Greek orator. Traditionally, he was born at Chalcis in Euboea around 420 BC. He came to Athens as a student of Isocrates and later taught Demosthenes whilst working as a metic speechwriter for others. He was one of the ten great Attic orators although only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance with one on civil rights.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.

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	Isaeus (who was born probably about 420 B.C.) is believed to have been an early pupil of Isocrates, and lie certainly was a student of Lysias.
	Isaeus brings us to a final stage of transition, in which the gifts distinctive of Lysias were to be fused into a perfect harmony with that masterly art which receives its most powerful expression in Demosthenes.
	Isaeus frequently interweaves the narrative with the proof.2 He shows the most dexterous ingenuity in adapting his manifold tactics to the case in hand, and often out-generals (,carauTp~Tifl~2) his adversary by some novel and daring disposition of his forces.

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