Apollonius the Effeminate
Apollonius the Effeminate (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακος) was a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.
After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric.[1] Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of Mark Antony.[2]
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- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Appolonius". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 186.
- ^ Cicero. De Oratore. 1.75.
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