Associations to the word «Demosthenic»

Wiktionary

DEMOSTHENIC, adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of Demosthenes, a celebrated Athenian orator and partion (384-322, B. C.), especially famous for his "Phillippics," or orations delivered against the encroachments of Philip, king of Macedon.

Dictionary definition

DEMOSTHENIC, adjective. Of or relating to Demosthenes or his oratory.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King