Apollonius the Effeminate ( grc, Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακος) was a Greek

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ian of

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in Caria who flourished about 120 BC. After studying under

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, chief of the

Asiatic school The Asiatic style or Asianism ( la, genus orationis Asiaticum, Cicero, ''Brutus'' 325) refers to an Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency (though not an organized school) that arose in the third century BC, which, although of minimal relevance at the ...

of oratory, he settled in

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, where he taught rhetoric. Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of

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