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"Demosthenes - Roman copy from a Greek Original ", 280 BC Polyeuktos Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) is remembered as a champion of Greek liberty, his great skills as an orator and talent for rhethoric most evident in his bitter denunciations of the Macedon King Phillip II (known as "Philippic Orations"). His strife led to his suicide to avoid arrest, while his contemporary Aristotle managed to escape to Alexandria before these events (Socrates was forced to drink poison).
Demosthenes is also remembered for his great stamina that allowed him to overcome his stammer - he was a "homo balbus" or one who suffered for stuttering (balbuceo in Spanish or tart-ta-mudo for "mute like" because of mutterings hard to comprehend akin to baby or babble like speech called in medical parlance dysarthria).
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