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See also:LIBANIUS (A.D. 314-393)
, See also:Greek sophist and rhetorician, was See also:born at See also:Antioch, the See also:capital of See also:Syria
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He studied at See also:Athens, and spent most of his earlier manhood in See also:Constantinople and See also:Nicomedia
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His private classes at Constantinople were much more popular than those of the public professors, who had him expelled in 346 (or earlier) on the See also:charge of studying magic.no intolerance
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Among his pupils he numbered See also: C . See also:Wolf (1738) ; two additional declamations, R . See also:Forster (See also:Hermes, ix . 22, xii . 217), who in 1903 began the publication of a See also:complete edition; Apologia Socratis, Y . H . Rogge (1891) . See also E . See also:Monnier, Histoire de See also:Libanius (1866) ; L . See also:Petit, Essai See also:sus la See also:vie et la See also:correspondence du sophiste Libanius (1866); G . R . Sievers, Das Leben See also:des Libanius (1868) ; R .
Forster, F
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Zambeccari and See also:die Briefe des Libanius (1878)
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Some letters from the See also:emperor See also:Julian to Libanius will be found in R
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Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873)
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Sixteen letters to Julian have been translated by J
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Duncombe (The Works of the Emperor Julian, i
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303-332, 3rd ed., See also:London, 1798)
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The oration on the emperor Julian is translated by C
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W
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Ki;Ig (in See also:Bohn's " Classical Library,” London, 1888), and that in See also:Defence of the Temples of the See also:Heathen by Dr See also:Lardner (in a See also:volume of See also:translations by See also: See also:Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, i . (1906), and A . Harrent, See also:Les Ecoles d' Antioche (1898) . |
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