id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-461	Martin, Gunther	Rhetorical Exercise or Political Pamphlet? Thomas Magistros’ Exploitation of Demosthenes’ Against Leptines	2006	20	.pdf	application/pdf	7807	391	62	Thus speeches on this topic were not just written as rhetorical exercises and showpieces to impress one’s audience.11 Whether Thomas Magistros’ declamations make use of those of Aristeides is impossible to say.12 Only some of the core issues of Aristeides’ speech (as suggested by himself) are taken up.13 Essential parts of Demosthenes’ argumentation are also dis- regarded by Magistros. This paper aims to demonstrate that Magistros chose and altered the form and subject matter of the Demosthenic model deliberately so as to allude to an issue of great importance in his own time: the problem of the Byzantine pronoia and its possible abolition.	cache/grbs-461.pdf	txt/grbs-461.txt