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Libanius (314–393
ce
) was a pagan Greek orator and teacher of rhetoric from Antioch. He is the author of more than 1,500 letters, 64 orations, 51 declamations, 144 progymnasmata, and 57 hypotheses to the orations of Demosthenes.
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Libanius (314–393
ce
) was a pagan Greek orator and teacher of rhetoric from Antioch.
He is the author of more than 1,500 letters, 64 orations, 51 declamations, 144 progymnasmata, and 57 hypotheses to the orations of Demosthenes.
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