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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLYCRATES  , Athenian sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th

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century B.C . He taught at
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Athens, and afterwards in
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Cyprus . He composed declamations on paradoxical themes —an Encomium on Clytaemnestra, an
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Accusation of
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Socrates, an Encomium on
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Busiris (a mythical
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king of
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Egypt, notorious for his inhumanity); also declamations on mice, pots and counters . His Encomium on Busiris was sharply criticized by Isocrates, in a
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work still extant, and
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Dionysius of
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Halicarnassus characterizes his
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style as frigid, vulgar and inelegant .

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