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of Nestor. He is said to have been the first
to reduce the practice of oratory into a regu-
lar art, and to give instructions in it for emo-
lument. Among his pupils was Thucydides.
He likewise introduced the custom of pleading
in the courts of justice, as a professional em-
ployment. We have sixteen orations which
hear his name, but they have been supposed
apocryphal. He also wrote a treatise upon
the art of oratory, in three books. Having
been condemned to death for favouring the
establishment of the " Four Hundred," he
pronounced, according to Cicero, a most ad-
mirable discourse in justification of himself,
which, nevertheless, failed of success; and he
died about the year A.C. 411,

Painters.
Panaenus, the brother of the celebrated Panamus.
sculptor Phidias, was eminently skilled in
painting; he contributed likewise to the em,
bellisbment of the Temple of Jupiter, at Olym-
pia. In this splendid edifice, he painted a
representation of Atlas supporting the Earth
and Heavens, and being relieved of the burthen