Aeschines of Sphettus

Aeschines of Sphettus or Aeschines Socraticus (Greek: Αἰσχίνης, sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines; ca. 425 BC – ca. 350 BC), son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens was in his youth a follower of Socrates. Historians call him Aeschines Socraticus—"the Socratic Aeschines"—to distinguish him from the more historically influential Athenian orator also named Aeschines.