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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLYCRATES , Athenian sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th See also:

century B.C. He taught at See also:Athens, and afterwards in See also:Cyprus. He composed declamations on paradoxical themes —an Encomium on Clytaemnestra, an See also:Accusation of See also:Socrates, an Encomium on See also:Busiris (a mythical See also:king of See also:Egypt, notorious for his inhumanity); also declamations on mice, pots and counters. His Encomium on Busiris was sharply criticized by Isocrates, in a See also:work still extant, and See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus characterizes his See also:style as frigid, vulgar and inelegant.

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