Gorgias, A famous Rhetoritian in the time of Socrates, who inuented the craft to dispute and annswere sonainelie to euerie question or matter that was preposed in a continuall oration: And by teaching Rhetoricke, became so rich, that he was the first that did set an ymage of golde in the temple of Appollo at Delphos. He beeing of age 108. yeares, surmoÛted almost al men of his time in bodily strÊgth, perfectnesse of senses, quicknesse of wit, and stablenesse of memory.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Gorgĭas, ae, m., = *gorgi/as. I.A famous Greek sophist of Leontini, a contemporary of Socrates, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; id. Fin. 2, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 22, 103; id. Brut. 8, 30; id. Or. 12, 39 et saep.—II.A rhetorician in Athens, instructor of Cicero's son, and author of the rhetorical work from which excerpts have been made by Rutilius Lupus, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6.—III.A sculptor of Sparta, Plin. 34, 8, 19, 49.