Κεκίλιος

A Sicilian, from Callatis (Callantis [sic] is a city in Sicily↗).¹ Rhetor. He was a sophist in Rome under Caesar Augustus, and until Hadrian. He was of servile parentage, some say, and his former name was Archagathus. He was of the Jewish faith. His books are numerous: Against the Phrygians, 2 books (it is alphabetically arranged);² Demonstration that Every Word of Elegant Language has been Spoken (it is a selection of words, alphabetically arranged); Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero; How the Attic and Asian Styles Differ; On the Stylistic Character of the Ten [Attic] Orators; Comparison of Demosthenes and Aeschines; On Demosthenes, which of his speeches are genuine and which misattributed; On Things Said Consistently and Inconsistently with History by the Orators; and very many other works. I am surprised by his being Jewish: a Jew clever in Greek matters.