Paulus
22. Of TYRE, a sophist or rhetorician of the time of Hadrian. He was deputed, apparently by his countrymen, as their delegate to the emperor, and succeeded in obtaining for Tyre the rank of a metropolis. He wrote the following works enumerated by Suidas, but all now lost. 1. Τέχνη ῥητορική, Ars Rhetorica. 2. Προγυμνάσματα, Progymnasmata. 3. Μελέται, Declamationes. (Suidas, s.v. Eudocia, Ἰωνιά, s.v. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 135; Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. ii. p. 278.)
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