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Theodorus of Phocaea, 4th c. B.C.

Hermocrates

Hermocrates. A rhetorician, a native of Phocaea. He was the grandson of the sophist Attalus, and studied under Claudius Rufinus of Smyrna. He died at the age of twenty-five, or twenty-eight, according to other accounts. Philostratus (Vit. Sophist. ii. 25) pronounces him one of the most distinguished rhetoricians of his age. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi.)

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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