Empylus

Empylus (1st century 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.[1]

References
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Ramsay (1870). "article name needed". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Footnotes
  1. Plut Brut. 2; Quintil. x. 6. ยง 4, and Spalding's note. (cited by Ramsay)


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