, a Greek sophist and grammarian, who flourished under the emperors
, a Greek sophist and grammarian, who
flourished under the emperors Constantius and Julian, and
was living, after the death of the latter, in the year 303,
was a native of Prusias in Bithynia, and a rival of Anatolius
and Proaeresius, after whose death he established himself
in the school of rhetoric at Athens. Eunapius, who writes
some account of him, commends his style, which was
formed on that of Aristides. He delighted in making
clandestine attacks upon the Christians. Photius describes
his declamations, and gives some extracts; but a copy of
them has been found, and an edition published by Wernsdorf in 1790, under the title “Himerii Sophisuc eclogae
et declamationes,
” Gr. Lat. Gottingen, 8vo.