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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 168 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APHTHONIUS , of See also:

Antioch, See also:Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the second See also:half of the 4th See also:century A.D., or even later. Nothing is known of his See also:life, except that he was a friend of See also:Libanius and of a certain See also:Eutropius, perhaps the author of the See also:epitome of See also:Roman See also:history. We possess by him IIpoyvuvavµara, a See also:text-See also:book on the elements of See also:rhetoric, with exercises for the use of the See also:young before they entered the See also:regular rhetorical See also:schools. They apparently formed an introduction to the TExv'I of See also:Hermogenes. His See also:style is pure and See also:simple, and See also:ancient critics praise his " Atticism." The book maintained its popularity as See also:late as the 17th century, especiallyin See also:Germany. Acollection of See also:forty fables by Aphthonius, of ter the style of See also:Aesop, is also extant. Spengel, Rhetores Graeci, ii.; Finckh, Aphthonii Progymnasmata(1865); Hoppichler, De Theone, Hermogene, Aphthonioque Progymnasmatum Scriptoribus (1884); edition of the fables by Furia (181o).

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