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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections

Codices 132–135: Palladius the Sophist, Aphthonius, Eusebius the Sophist and Maximus of…

Read various Declamations by Palladius¹ the sophist, Aphthonius,² Eusebius³ the sophist, and Maximus the sophist of Alexandria. Palladius is far superior to the others in excellence of style.

Notes

Of Methone, lived in the time of Constantine.
Of Antioch (fourth century A.D.). Pupil of Libanius and author of an extant Progymnasmata (literary exercises).
There were two sophists of this name, one of Antioch, the other of Alexandria. Nothing more is known of them, nor of Maximus.