Ἀδριανός
Hadrian, Adrianos, Adrian, Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Adrianus
Translated by Malcolm Heath7 Jul 1999Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Sophist. A pupil of Herodes;1 floruit under Marcus Antoninus;2 as a teacher he was a rival to the rhetor Aristides3 in Athens. He was also sophist in Rome, and was secretary with responsibility for correspondence under Commodus.4 [He wrote] Declamations; Metamorphoses (7 books); On Types of Style (5 books); On Distinctive Features in the Issues (3 books); letters and epideictic speeches; Phalaris; Consolation to Celer.