Aeschines
Athenian orator and rival of Demosthenes. In exile at Rhodes, heard the oration of Demosthenes read against him and sighed, "What if you had heard the beast itself?"
Works
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— In exile at Rhodes, heard the oration of Demosthenes read; sighed and said "What if you had heard the beast itself sounding forth its own words?"
"Aeschines, when he was in exile at Rhodes and that oration of Demosthenes was read which he had delivered against him"