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Ἀγωνιᾶν
to contest
Isocrates [sc. uses the word] to mean agonizesthai ["to compete"].
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Ἀδριανός
Hadrian, Adrianos, Adrian, Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Adrianus
Sophist. A pupil of Herodes; floruit under Marcus Antoninus; as a teacher he was a rival to the rhetor Aristides in Athens. He was also sophist in Rome, and was secretary with responsibility for …
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Ἀθηνόδωρος
Athenodoros, Athenodorus
This man was an Athenian soldier. There is also another, a pupil of Dionysius the Areopagite; he wrote various works. Also another sophist; brother of Gregory Thaumaturgus.
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Ἀκάκιος
Akakios, Acacius
An extremely eloquent rhetor in the time of Julian and the sophist Libanius. He attacked Julian and found fault with his judgments, along with Tuscianus from Phrygia, himself an eloquent rhetor.
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Ἀκουσίλαος
Akousilaos; Akusilaos; Acusilaus
An Athenian, son of Agathokleia. He acquired a passionate enthusiasm for oratory in Athens, went to Rome under Galba and devoted himself to rhetorical discourse. From the interest earned on his business dealings, on …
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Ἀκροθίνια
spoils, akrothinia
[Meaning] the first-fruits of the annual crops. But in the strict sense akrothinia is the name for the first-fruits which those [who make their living] out of importing dedicate, because they are saved from …
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Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος
Alexandros Aigaios, Alexandrus Aegaeus, Alexander of Aegae
Peripatetic philosopher; teacher of the emperor Nero, along with the philosopher Chaeremon. He had a son called Caelinus. This man used to call Nero 'clay mixed with blood'. In my view, bad pupils have …
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Ἀμμωνιανός
Ammonianos, Ammonianus
Grammarian, honoured by his association with Syrianus and also by their innate similarity in character and physique -- in Homer's words, 'in appearance and stature and nature most similar'; for each of them was …
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Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
Son of Aristocles, of Lampsacus, rhetor; pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and the grammarian Zoilus of Amphipolis, who abused Homer; teacher of Alexander of Macedon, and accompanied him on his campaigns. When king Alexander …
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Ἀνδοκίδης
Andocides, Andokides
Of Athens; rhetor; one of the ten principal ones. Son of Leogoras, and a descendant of Odysseus' son Telemachus and Nausicaa, according to Hellanicus.
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Ἀνδροτίων
Androtion
Son of Andron; of Athens; rhetor and demagogue; pupil of Isocrates.
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Ἄνδρων
Andron
He was one of the 400.
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Ἀντέρως
Anteros
[Anteros], also [called] Apollonius, of Alexandria. Grammarian. He taught in Rome under Claudius, who was emperor after Gaius; Heraclides of Pontus also lived in his time. He was a pupil of Apion Mochthus. Extant …
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Ἀντίμαχος
Antimachus, Antimachos
Of Colophon, son of Hyparchus; grammarian and poet. Some have listed him as a servant of the poet Panyas[s]is, but altogether mistakenly: he was his pupil, and also [a pupil] of Stesimbrotus. He lived …
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Ἀντιφῶν
Antiphon
Of Athens, a diviner and epic poet and sophist. He was called 'word-cook'.
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Ἀντιφῶν
Antiphon
Son of Sophilus; of Athens, of the deme Rhamnus. No one is recognised as his teacher; nevertheless, he was the leader in the judicial style [of oratory] after Gorgias. He is said to have …
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Ἀντιφῶν
Antiphon
Of Athens, an interpreter of dreams. He wrote On the Interpretation of Dreams.
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Ἄντυλλος
Antyllus, Antyllos
A rhetor.
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2800
Ἄνυτος
Anytus, Anytos
Son of Anthemion, Athenian, rhetor.
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Ἀπίων
Apion
Son of Plistonicus; nicknamed Mochthus ["Toil"]; of Egypt (but according to Heliconius, a Cretan). Grammarian. A pupil of Apollonius son of Archibius; he also attended Euphranor's lectures when he was an old man, more …
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Ἀπολινάριος
Apollinarios, Apollinarius
Of Laodicea in Syria. He lived in the days of Constantius and Julian the Apostate, and until the reign of Theodosius the Great; he was a contemporary of Basil and Gregory, the much-admired Cappadocians. …
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Ἀπολλόδωρος
Apollodorus, Apollodoros
Son of Asclepiades. Grammarian. One of the pupils of the philosopher Panaetius of Rhodes and the grammarian Aristarchus. He was Athenian by birth. He was the first of the so-called tragiambic poets.
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Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonius, Apollonios
Son of Archebulus or Archibius. He wrote on Homeric diction, arranged alphabetically.
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Ἀρίσταρχος
Aristarchus, Aristarchos, Aristarkhos
Of Alexandria by adoption, although he was born in Samothrace. His father was Aristarchus. He lived in the 156th Olympiad, under Ptolemy Philometor, to whose son he was also tutor. He is said to …
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Ἀριστείδης
Aristeides, Aristides, Aelius Aristides
Of Hadriani. Sophist. (Hadriani is a city in Mysia, now Bithynia.) Pupil of the rhetor Polemo of Smyrna. Son of Eudaemon, who was a philosopher and priest in the temple of Zeus in his …
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Ἀριστογείτων
Aristogiton, Aristogeiton
Son of Cydimachus or Lysimachus, of Athens. Rhetor. His mother was a freedwoman. He was nicknamed 'Dog' because of his shamelessness. He was put to death by the Athenians. His speeches were: Defence in …
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Ἀριστόδημος
Aristodemus, Aristodemos
[He wrote] Epitome of the Universal [Prosody] of Herodian [addressed] to Danaus.
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Messene in Italy; Peripatetic philosopher. He composed On Philosophy, 10 books; Whether Homer or Plato is more Serious. In these books he catalogues all the philosophers and their opinions. He also wrote an …
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Pergamum. Sophist. Lived under both Trajan and Hadrian. [He wrote] Art of Rhetoric; Letters; On Rhetoric, in 5 books; Declamations; To the Emperor on the distribution of gold.
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Ἀρκάδιος
Arcadius, Arkadios
Grammarian; of Antioch. He wrote On Orthography; On the Syntax of the Parts of Speech; Onomaticon (an admirable work).
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