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Tarsus, Greek rhetorician, surnamed 5uvr11p (the polisher), flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (A.D . 16r-180) . His precocious ability secured him a public appointment as teacher of his art while as yet he was only a boy; but at the age of twenty-five his faculties gave way, and he spent the remainder of his long life in a state of intellectual impotence . During his early years, however, he had composed a series of rhetorical treatises, which became popular text-books, and the subject of subsequent commentaries . Of his TEXvrf jinroptxif we still possess the sections Ilepi riov aravewv (on legal issues), Hepi evp&VEws (on the invention of arguments), IIepi t&wv (on the various kinds of style),Hept µeBo3ov 8etvorrlros (on the method of speaking effectively), and IIpoyvµvavµara rhetorical exercises) . Editions by C . Walz (1832), and by L . Spengel (1854), in their Rhetores Graeci; bibliographical note on the commentaries in W . Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (1898) .