Empylus

Empylus

Empylus (1st ct. BC) was an Ancient Roman rhetorician. He was the companion, as we are told by Plutarch, of Brutus, to whom he dedicated a short essay, not destitute of merit, on the death of Caesar. It is not stated to what country he belonged.

"Empylus the Rhodian" is mentioned in a passage of Quintilian, where the text is very doubtful, as an orator referred to by Cicero, but no such name occurs in any extant work of the latter. [Plut Brut. 2; Quintil. x. 6. § 4, and Spalding's note. (cited by Ramsay)]

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  • EMPYLUS — Rhetor, M. Bruto familiaris, auctor libelli, de morte Caesaris, cui Bruti titulus. Plutarch. in Bruto …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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