ANTISTHENES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Antisthenes Founder of the Cynic School in Athens. He wore a ragged cloak, and carried a wallet and staff like a beggar. Socrates wittily said he could "see rank pride peering, through the holes of Antisthenes rags." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Antisthenes

Antisthenes (c. 444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, was born at Athens of a Thracian mother, a fact which may account for the extreme boldness of his attack on conventional thought.

In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. Some suggest that he was originally in good circumstances, but was reduced to poverty. However this may be, he came under the influence of Socrates, and became a devoted pupil.

So eager was he to hear the words of Socrates that he used to walk daily from Peiraeus to Athens, and persuaded his friends accompany him. Filled with enthusiasm for the Socratic idea virtue, he founded a school of his own in the Cynosarges. Thither he attracted the poorer masses by the simplicity of his life and teaching. He wore a cloak and carried a staff and a wallet, and this costume became uniform of his followers.

Diogenes Laertius says that his works filled ten volumes, but of these, fragments only remain. His favourite style seems to have been the dialogue, wherein see the effect of his early rhetorical training. Aristotle speaks of him as uneducated and simple-minded, and Plato describes him as struggling in vain with the difficulties of dialectic. His work represents one great aspect of Socratic philosophy, and should be compared with the Cyrenaic and Igarian doctrines.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

Modern Usage: ANTISTHENES

Domain

Usage

Clever

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (references; author: Antisthenes)

Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (references; author: Antisthenes)

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. (references; author: Antisthenes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Familiar Quotations: ANTISTHENES

Author	Quotation
Antisthenes	Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
	Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
	As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Usage Frequency: ANTISTHENES

"ANTISTHENES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "ANTISTHENES" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ANTISTHENES

Anagrams: ANTISTHENES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-n-s-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: antitheses.
	-2 letters: anisettes, antisense, asthenies, hesitates, insensate, intensest, nattiness, sententia, sentients, setenants, stannites, tetanises.
	-3 letters: anisette, antheses, anthesis, antsiest, atheists, esthesia, etesians, hastiest, hesitant, hesitate, insanest, instants, instates, nastiest, neatness, satinets, sentient, setenant, shannies, shanties, sheitans, staithes, stanines, stannite, sthenias, teniases, tennises, tennists, tetanies, tetanise, thinness, thinnest, titaness.
	-4 letters: ashiest, atheist, easiest, entases, entasis.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-n-n-s-s-t-t"
	+4 letters: disenchantments, disheartenments.
	+5 letters: faintheartedness, nonestablishment.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.