ISAEUS: b. about 420 a.c.; d. about 350 B.C. one of the eTen Attic Orators," though prob ably a native of Chalcis, made his home in Athens, and there, in the first half of the 4th century a.c., we find him actively engaged in the profession of a speech-writer (logogra for clients in the law courts. It is be eyed that he was a pupil of Isocrates (q.v.). In Attic oratory he represents the transitory period between Lysias (q.v.) and Demosthenes (q.v.). He seems also to have taught rhetoric, to Demosthenes among others, according to one tradition. We have from him a dozen orations dealing with inheritance cases, two of them in a fragmentary conditiog, although it is known that he wrote at least fifty. They are valuable not only as specimens of Attic For ensic style, but also as sources regarding early testamentary and private law and regarding the social life of ancient Greece. There are quite a number of manuscripts of his Speeches, the best of which is known as A' in the British Museum. Of the many edi tions of his speeches the following should be mentioned: Aldus (Venice 1513) ; Bekker, I., (Oxford 1823) ;, Dobson, W. S., (London 1828) ; Baiter, J. G., and Sauppe, H., (Zurich 1$311-43) ; Schomann, G. F. (with commentary, Greifswalde 1831) ; Scheibe. C., (Leipzig 1860) ;
Bfirmann, H., (Berlin 1883) ; May, A., (Leip zig 1892); Wyse, W. (Cambridge 1904). The best edition is that of H. Buermann (Ber lin 1883). There is an English translation by W. Jones, (London 1779);