LIBANIUS
\lɪbˈe͡ɪnɪəs], \lɪbˈeɪnɪəs], \l_ɪ_b_ˈeɪ_n_ɪ__ə_s]\
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A Greek sophist of the fourth century; native of Antioch in Syria. Though a heathen, he was beloved by St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom, once his pupils. He was a voluminous writer, and very successfully imitated in his orations the style of Demosthenes; he got the nickname of "the little Demosthenes". Of his orations 68 are extant: they are of value for the history of his time; the same is to be said of his "Epistles", of which 1,607 remain.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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