proper noun
Mĕnĕcles
Meaning
- an Asiatic rhetorician from Alabanda
Mĕnĕcles, is, m., = Μενεκλῆς,
I. an Asiatic rhetorician from Alabanda, Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 95; id. Or. 69, 231.—Hence, Mĕ-nĕclĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Menecles the rhetorician:
Meneclium studium, Cic. Brut. 95, 326.