Apollonius Molon (sometimes called simply Molon), Greekrhetorician, who flourished about 70 BC.
He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes. He twice visited Rome as an ambassador from Rhodes, and Cicero and Caesar took lessons from him.
He endeavoured moderate the florid Asiatic style and cultivated an Atticized tendency. He wrote on Homer, and, according to Josephus, violently attacked the Jews.
See C Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.; Emil Schürer, Story of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).
APOLLONIUS, surnamed i1,~iaXaebr (the Effeminate), 11 eek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria, who flourished about o B.C. After studying under Men.ecles, chief of the Asiatic sool of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric, iong his pupils being Mark Anton.y.
APOLLONIUS, surnamed the Sophist, of Alexandria, a isous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the Century A.D. He was the author of a Homeric lexicon ~ets Oui~pucaL), the only work of the kind we possess.
APOLLONIUS MOWN (sometimes called simply M0L0N), Greek rhetorician, who flourished about 70 B.C. He was a tive of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes.
Apollonius is said to have been so poor, that he was obliged to write on shells, as he had no means of procuring the ordinary writing materials; and this poverty created that state of mind to which he owed the surname of Dyscolos.
Apollonius and his son are called by Priscian in several passages the greatest of all grammarians, and he declares, that it was only owing to the assistance which he derived from their works that he was enabled to undertake his task.
Apollonius Cyprius (Koprios) was the pupil of Olympicus and the tutor to Julianus.
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