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Hierocles of Alabanda

Hierocles

also: Hierocles

Asiatic rhetorician of the late second/early first century BC, brother of Menecles and a leader of the Asiatic school. Cicero (Orator 231) judges the brothers not contemptible despite their distance from the Attic standard, faulting only their monotony.

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Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 1 mention

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