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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 564 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER , son of See also:

Numenius, See also:Greek rhetorician, flourished in the first See also:half of the second See also:century A.D. In addition to See also:general See also:treatises on See also:rhetoric, he wrote a See also:special See also:work IIepi Twv Tijs btavoias Kai rjr Wean o'X1j jtltraw, of which only an abridgment is extant; later epitomes were made in Latin by See also:Aquila See also:Romanus and See also:Julius Rufinianus under the See also:title De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis. Another See also:epitome was made in the See also:fourth century by a See also:Christian for use in Christian See also:schools, containing additional examples from See also:Gregory of Nazianzus. See also:Text in Spengel, Rhetores Graeci (1856).

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