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APSINES of See also:Gadara, a See also:Greek rhetorician, who flourished during the 3rd See also:century A.D . After studying at See also:Smyrna, he taught at See also:Athens, and gained such a reputation that he was raised to the consulship by the See also:emperor Maximinus (235-238) . He was the friend of See also:Philostratus, the author of the Lives of the See also:Sophists, who speaks of his wonderful memory and accuracy .. Two rhetorical See also:treatises by him are extant: Thom pod!, a handbook of See also:rhetoric greatly interpolated, a considerable portion being taken from the Rhetoric of See also:Longinus; and a smaller See also:work, Ilepi ngardvµEVwv i1-po3Xnuarwv, on Propositions See also:main- tained figuratively . See also:Editions by See also:Bake, 1849; Spengel-See also:Hammer in Rhetores Graeci, ii . (1894) : see also Hammer, De Apsine Rhetore (1876) ; Volkmann, Rhetorik der Griechen and Romer (1885) . |
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