Maior, better known as Maior of Arabia was an

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

sophist and

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during the 3rd century AD. He was a contemporary of the sophists

Apsines Apsines of Gadara ( grc-gre, Ἀψίνης ὁ Γαδαρεύς; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara,Blank, David"Philodemus" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), ...

and Nicagoras, at the time of

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emperor

Philip the Arab Philip the Arab ( la, Marcus Julius Philippus "Arabs"; 204 – September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. He was born in Aurantis, Arabia, in a city situated in modern-day Syria. After the death of Gordian III in February 244, Philip ...

(244–249). There is little biographical information available about him. Like Nicagoras, Maior might have held an official chair of rhetoric at

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. According to the ''Suda'', he wrote thirteen books ''On Issues''.''Suda Online''
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