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    they were by the rebellious troops. Libanius' family fell out of favor and his grandfather was executed. Libanius' father died when he was eleven, leaving...
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    late antique orator and sophist Libanius of Antiochia. This was a task of major importance for several reasons: Libanius' orations, declamations and progymnasmata...
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    Priscus, Libanius proposes to write a biography of Julian. Eventually Priscus agrees to send a manuscript written by Julian himself to Libanius along with...
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    Socrates of Constantinople, Historia ecclesiastica, 3.18 Libanius, Orations, 18.195 & 16.21 Libanius, Orations, 1.126 & 15.20 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae...
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    biblehub.com. Rockwell 1911, p. 130. Libanius (2000). Antioch as a Centre of Hellenic Culture as Observed by Libanius. Translated with an introduction by...
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    Genus: Thereus Species: T. lausus Binomial name Thereus lausus (Cramer, [1779]) Synonyms Papilio lausus Cramer, [1779] Papilio libanius Stoll, [1782]...
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    Halicarnassus Dioscorides Eusebius of Caesaria Galen Herodian Josephus Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus...
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    Hellenic Studies, 124 (2004:38–64) p. 38 and note. Kerényi 1951, p. 156–158. Libanius, Progymnasmata 7 Axel Seeberg (1965) Hephaistos Rides Again. The Journal...
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    University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at ToposText. Libanius (2008). Libanius's Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and...
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  • Aristophanes of Corinth (a friend of Libanius') of certain fiscal crimes. After Julian's ascension in 361, Libanius appealed to the emperor on behalf of...
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  • Marcus Livius Drusus Libo was an ancient Roman consul of the early Roman Empire. He was the son of Lucius Scribonius Libo and adopted brother of the empress...
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    37–41. ISBN 0-674-99014-5. Libanius (1888). Julian the Emperor: Containing Gregory Nazianzen's Two Invectives and Libanius' Monody with Julian's Extant...
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  • Calliopius of Antioch (category Correspondents of Libanius)
    had taught with Libanius as an assistant-teacher in Antioch and Constantinople. Calliopius was one of the correspondents to Libanius in which various...
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    in the city, John began his education under the pagan preacher Libanius. From Libanius, John acquired the skills for a career in rhetoric, as well as...
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    acids and esters. The fine structure of the osmeterium of Papilio demoleus libanius Fruhstorfer has been studied and found to contain 3 types of specialised...
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  • lectures. Libanius records that Diophantus had once also been roughed up by thugs. Diophantus is mentioned in the Byzantine Suda's entry for Libanius. One...
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    designed by Pytheos, one of the architects of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Libanius wrote that Alexander founded the temple of Zeus Bottiaios (Ancient Greek:...
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    given as the reason why Homer describes Apollo as the "wolf-born god". Libanius wrote that neither land nor visible islands would receive Leto, but by...
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    the Apostles. During Constantine's lifetime, Praxagoras of Athens and Libanius, pagan authors, showered Constantine with praise, presenting him as a paragon...
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    Atheniorum [Letter to the senate of Athens] (in Latin), 279D, 280A, B, C; Libanius, Orations, 18.82–83, 87; Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae (in Latin), 18...
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    Halicarnassus Dioscorides Eusebius of Caesaria Galen Herodian Josephus Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus...
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    wrapped himself in a fleece to disguise himself as a sheep. Smith s.v. Pitys Libanius, Progymnasmata, 1.4 Cohen, pp 169-170 Also testified by Clement in Homilies...
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