Menippus of Stratonikeia

Menippus of Stratonikeia

Menippus of Stratonikeia (in Greek Mενιππoς; b. Stratonicea, 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]

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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

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).