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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="androtion-bio-1" n="androtion_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Andro'tion</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Ἀνδροτίων</label>), an Athenian orator, was a son of Andron, a
      pupil of Isocrates, and a contemporary of Demosthenes. (Suid. <hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>)</p><p>To which of the political parties of the time he belonged is uncertain; but Ulpian (<hi rend="ital">ad Demosth. c. Androt.</hi> p. 594) states, that he was one of the leading
      demagogues of his time. He seems to have been a particularly skilful and elegant speaker.
      (Schol. <hi rend="ital">ad Hermogen.</hi> p. 401.) Among the orations of Demosthenes there is
      one against our Androtion, which Demosthenes delivered. at the age of twenty-seven (Gellius,
       <bibl n="Gel. 15.28">15.28</bibl>; <bibl n="Plut. Dem. 15">Plut. Dem. 15</bibl>), and in
      which he imitated the elegant style of Isocrates and Androtion. The subject of the speech is
      this: Androtion had induced the people to make a psephisma in a manner contrary to law or
      custom. Euctemon and Diodorus came forward to accuse him, and proposed that he should be
      disfranchised, partly for having proposed the illegal psephisma, and partly for his bad
      conduct in other respects. Demosthenes wrote the oration against Androtion for Diodorus, one
      of the accusers, who delivered it. (Liban. <hi rend="ital">Argum. ad Demosth. Androt.</hi>)
      The issue of the contest is not known.</p><div><head>Works</head><div><head>Orations</head><p>The orations of Androtion have perished, with the exception of a fragment which is
        preserved and praised by Aristotle. (<hi rend="ital">Rhet.</hi> 3.4.)</p></div><div><head>Possible Works</head><div><head><title xml:lang="la">Eroticus</title> ascribed by some to Androtion</head><p>Some modern critics, such as Wesseling (<hi rend="ital">ad Diod.</hi> 1.29), Coraes (<hi rend="ital">ad Isocrat.</hi> ii. p. 40), and Orelli (<hi rend="ital">ad Isocrat. de
          Antid.</hi> p. 248), ascribe to Androtion the Eroticus which is usually printed among the
         orations of Demosthenes; but their arguments are not satisfactory. (Westermann, <hi rend="ital">Quaest. Demosth.</hi> ii. p. 81.)</p></div><div><head><title>Atthis</title></head><p>There is an Androtion, the author of an Atthis, whom some regard as the same person as
         the orator.</p></div></div></div><div><head>Further Information</head><p>Zosim. <hi rend="ital">Vit. Isocr.</hi> p. xi. ed. Dind.</p></div><byline>[<ref target="author.L.S">L.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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