Zenobius
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- For the bishop of Florence and saint, see Saint Zenobius.
Zenobius was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138).
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He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis on Crete).
Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author Sallust and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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