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Alexander (Rhetorician)

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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Son of Numenius, Greek rhetorician, flourished in the first half of the second century A.D. In addition to general treatises on rhetoric, he wrote a special work IIepc Tan ) Tfs 6tavo as xai Ti 7 73 X �ws aXn�aTwv, of which only an abridgment is extant; later epitomes were made in Latin by Aquila Romanus and Julius Rufinianus under the title De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis. Another epitome was made in the fourth century by a Christian for use in Christian schools, containing additional examples from Gregory of Nazianzus.

Text in Spengel, Rhetores Graeci (1856).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Alexander (Rhetorician)'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/alexander-rhetorician.html. 1910.
 
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