Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius, surnamed ὁ μαλακος ("the Effeminate"), a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria, who flourished about 120 B.C. After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric, among his pupils being Mark Antony.

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