Menippus of Stratonikeia

Menippus of Stratonikeia (Ancient Greek: Μένιππος, 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]

References

• Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Menippus (3)", Boston, (1867)

Notes

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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