Aphthonius
, of Antioch, a celebrated rhetorician
and sophist, who lived in the third century, wrote in Greek
a treatise on rhetoric which has descended to us, and some
other works. His rhetoric has been translated into Latin.
The best edition was printed by the Elzivirs at Amsterdam,
1645, 12mo, under the title “Aphthonii Progymnasmata,
partim a Rodolpho Agricola, partim a Joanne-Maria Catanaeo latinitate donata, cum scholiis R. Lorichii.” 2
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