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HERMOGENES , of See also:

Tarsus, See also:Greek rhetorician, surnamed 5uvr11p (the polisher), flourished in the reign of See also:Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 16r-180). His precocious ability secured him a public See also:appointment as teacher of his See also:art while as yet he was only a boy; but at the See also:age of twenty-five his faculties gave way, and he spent the See also:remainder of his See also:long See also:life in a See also:state of intellectual See also:impotence. During his See also:early years, however, he had composed a See also:series of rhetorical See also:treatises, which became popular See also:text-books, and the subject of subsequent commentaries. Of his TEXvrf jinroptxif we still possess the sections Ilepi riov aravewv (on legal issues), Hepi evp&VEws (on the invention of arguments), IIepi t&wv (on the various kinds of See also:style),Hept µeBo3ov 8etvorrlros (on the method of speaking effectively), and IIpoyvµvavµara rhetorical exercises). See also:Editions by C. Walz (1832), and by L. Spengel (1854), in their Rhetores Graeci; See also:bibliographical See also:note on the commentaries in W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (1898).

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