"ALEXANDER", son of Numenius, Greek rhetorician, flourished in the first half of the second century A.D. In addition to general treatises on rhetoric, he wrote a special work Περὶ τῶν τῆς διανοίας καὶ τῆς λέξεως σχημάτων, of which only an abridgment is extant; later epitomes were made in Latin by Aquila Romanus and Julius Rufinianus under the title 'De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis'. Another epitome was made in the fourth century by a Christian for use in Christian schools, containing additional examples from Gregory of Nazianzus.
Text in Spengel, 'Rhetores Graeci' (1856).
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