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APOLLONIUS MOLON (sometimes called simply MOLON) , a See also:

Greek rhetorician, who flourished about 70 B.C. He was a native of Alabanda, a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Menecles, and settled at See also:

Rhodes. He twice visited See also:

Rome as an See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador from Rhodes, and See also:

CICERO

Cicero and See also:

Caesar took lessons from him. He endeavoured to moderate the florid See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

style and cultivated an "Atticizing" tendency. He wrote on See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, and, according to See also:

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)

Josephus, violently attacked the See also:

Jews. See C. See also:

Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii. ; E. Scharer, See also:

HISTORY

History of the Jewish See also:

PEOPLE

People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).

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