APOLLONIUS MOLON (sometimes called simply MOLON)  , a Greek rhetorician, who flourished about 70 B.C . He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes . He twice visited Rome as an ambassador from Rhodes, and Cicero and Caesar took lessons from him . He endeavoured to moderate the florid Asiatic style and cultivated an "Atticizing" tendency . He wrote on Homer, and, according to Josephus, violently attacked the Jews . See C . Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii . ; E . Scharer, History of the Jewish People, iii . (Eng. tr . 1886) .