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Menecles of Alabanda

Menecles

also: Menecles

Asiatic rhetorician of the late second/early first century BC, brother of Hierocles and a leader of the Asiatic school. Cicero (Orator 231) pairs him with his brother as a facile and copious but unvaried representative of the Asiatic style.

Mentioned in 1 work (1 mentions)

Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 1 mention

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