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HERMAGORAS , of Temnos, See also:

Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of See also:

ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory in See also:

Rome, flourished during the first See also:

HALF

half of the 1st See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. He obtained a See also:

GREAT

great reputation among a certain See also:

section and founded a See also:

SPECIAL

special school, the members of which called themselves Hermagorei. His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief opponent was See also:

POSIDONIUS (c. 130-50 B.C.)

Posidonius of See also:

Rhodes, who is said to have contended with him in See also:

ARGUMENT

argument in the presence of See also:

POMPEY

Pompey (See also:

Plutarch, Pompey, 42). Hermagoras devoted himself particularly to the See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of See also:

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric known as oiKovoµia (inventio), and is said to have invented the See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine of the four cravecs (status) and to have arranged the parts of an oration differently from his predecessors. See also:

CICERO

Cicero held an unfavourable See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion of his methods, which were approved by See also:

QUINTILIAN [MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS] (C. A.D. 35-95)

Quintilian, although he considers that Hermagoras neglected the See also:

PRACTICAL

practical See also:

side of rhetoric for the theoretical. According to Suidas and See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo, he was the author of Tixva1 prlropucal (rhetorical manuals) and of other See also:

WORKS

works, which should perhaps be attributed to his younger namesake, surnamed Carton, the 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 See also:

THEODORUS, FLAVIUS MALLIUS

Theodorus of See also:

GADARA

Gadara. See Strabo xiii. p. 621; Cicero, De inventione, i. 6. 8, See also:

BRUTUS (originally an adjective meaning " heavy," "stupid," kindred with Gr. aap(s, cf. Eng. " brute," " brutal")

Brutus, 76, 263. 78, 271; Quintilian, Instit. iii. 1.

16, 3. 9, II. 22; C. W. Piderit, De Hermagora rhetore (1839); G. Thiele, Hermagoras Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rhetorik (1893).

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