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he had been trained by the great rhetorician
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and sophist Gorgias
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and he was also in the circle of Socrates,
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along with Plato and Xenophon and various other bright young men
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of the upper classes in Athens.
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Also, he was a poet, an orator himself,
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a philosopher and so on and some of his fragments,
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of some of his works remain for us to look at,
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but one thing that he was by 404 was
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a bitter enemy of the democracy.
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He had been exiled or had voluntarily taken exile,
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in order to get away from the democracy,