Xenocles of Adramyttium (in Greek: Ξενοκλής ο Αδραμυττηνός) was an ancient Greek renowned orator, mentioned by Strabo.[1][2]

Xenocles hailed from Adramyttium,[3] an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor.

Rushing to ancient Rome and speaking before the Roman Senate, Xenocles effectively refuted the various accusations that had been made - that the entire region, the province of Asia, was friendly towards Mithridates.[4]

It is noted that the orator Xenocles was a contemporary of Cicero, with whom he was greatly friends, a relationship that developed during the latter's stay in Asia in 78 BC[5]

References

  1. ↑ Perrin, Bernadotte (1919). Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674991109. [...] he studied oratory with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magnesia, and Menippus the Carian [...]
  2. ↑ Strab. 13.1.66
  3. ↑ Plut. Cic. 4.4
  4. ↑ Strab. 13.1.66
  5. ↑ "Cicero: Brutus". The Latin Library.

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