CASSIUS LONGINUS
\kˈasɪəs lˈɒŋɡɪnəs], \kˈasɪəs lˈɒŋɡɪnəs], \k_ˈa_s_ɪ__ə_s l_ˈɒ_ŋ_ɡ_ɪ_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of CASSIUS LONGINUS
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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A celebrated Greek philosopher and rhetorician; lived about 210-273 A. D.; born at Athens. He taught at Athens till called to Palmyra by Queen Zenobia to be her counselor; he confirmed the Queen in her resolve to resist Roman domination, and on that account was beheaded by order of the Emperor Aurelian. He was a man of vast learning: his biographer calls him a "living library", a "walking museum". Of his voluminous writings, all that have come down to us are the prolegomena to Hephaestion's "Metrics", and a fragment of a treatise on rhetoric. The valuable little essay on "The Sublime", commonly attributed to him, is the work of some unknown writer of the first century of our era.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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