Menippus of Stratonikeia
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Menippus of Stratonikeia (in Greek Mενιππoς; b. Stratonikeia, Caria, lived 1st century BC), surnamed Catocas, was a Carian by birth; he was the most accomplished orator of his time in all Asia (79 BC). Cicero, who heard him, puts him almost on a level with the Attic orators.1
[edit] References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Menippus (3)", Boston, (1867)
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1 Cicero, Brutus, 91; Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Cicero", 4; Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vi. 5; Strabo, Geography, xiv. 2
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