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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 IIepi Twv Tijs btavoias Kai rjr Wean o'X1j jtltraw, 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) .