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Apsines (sophist)

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Apsines (Ancient Greek: Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus (Ancient Greek: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian,[1] and who taught rhetoric at Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth century CE, though this Apsines is called a Lacedaemonian.[2]

This Apsines and his disciples were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetorician at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress.[3]

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  1. ^ Ulpian, ad Demosth. Leptin. p. 11; comp. Schol. ad Hermog. p. 402
  2. ^ Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists p. 113, ed. Antwerp. 1568
  3. ^ Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists p. 115, &c., ed. Antwerp. 1568

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSchmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apsines". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 251.