Crossword-Solution: RHETORS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The same experiment was tried with the same result on various classes of men; on poets, mechanics, and especially on the rhetors and sophists, the chief of all the pretenders to wisdom.

Though why do I write this to thee, who hast learned more, and hast more understanding than I have? Thou wert acquainted with Paul of Tarsus, and more than once didst converse long with him; hence thou knowest better if in comparison with the truth which he taught all the teachings of philosophers and rhetors are not a vain and empty jingle of words without meaning.

These schools, the teachers of which were known as _rhetors_, furnished a type of education representing a sort of collegiate education for the period.

Greek eloquence revives in the Sophists--Itinerant rhetors--Cynic preachers of virtue--The better class of popular philosophers--Dio Chrysostom--Union of philosophy and rhetoric--Greek now the language of general literature--Reconciliation of philosophy with religion--The Platonist school--Apuleius--Doctrine of daemons--Decline of thought-- General review of the main features of Roman literature—Conclusion.

These were the rhetors and the sophists; properly speaking distinct, but often confounded under the general name of sophist.