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CAECILIUS , of Calacte (KaXil'Aurii) in See also:

Sicily, See also:Greek rhetorician, flourished at See also:Rome during the reign of See also:Augustus. Originally called Archagathus, he took the name of Caecilius from his See also:patron, one of the Metelli. According to Suidas, he was by See also:birth a See also:Jew. Next to See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, he was the most important critic and rhetorician of the Augustan See also:age. Only fragments are extant of his numerous and important See also:works, among which may be mentioned: On the See also:Style of the Ten Orators (including their lives and a See also:critical examination of their works), the basis of the pseudo-Plutarchian See also:treatise of the same name, in which Caecilius is frequently referred to; On the See also:Sublime, attacked by (?) See also:Longinus in his See also:essay on the same subject (see L. See also:Martens, De Libello IIEp ih/.ous, 1877) ; See also:History of the Servile See also:Wars, or slave risings in Sicily, the See also:local See also:interest of which would naturally See also:appeal to the author; On See also:Rhetoric and Rhetorical Figures; an Alphabetical Selection of Phrases, intended to serve as a See also:guide to the acquirement of a pure See also:Attic style—the first example of an Atticist See also:lexicon, mentioned by Suidas in the See also:preface to his lexicon as one of his authorities; Against the Phrygians, probably an attack on the florid style of the See also:Asiatic school of rhetoric. The fragments have been collected and edited by T. See also:Burckhardt (1863), and E. Ofenloch (1907); some in C. W. See also:Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.; C. See also:Bursian's Jahresbericht .

. . der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, See also:

xxiii. (1896), contains full notices of See also:recent works on Caecilius, by C. See also:Hammer; F. See also:Blass, Griechische Beredsamkeit von See also:Alexander bis auf Augustus (1865), treats of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Caecilius together; see also J. Brzoska in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie (1897).

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