Apsines (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian,[1] and who taught rhetoric at Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth century CE, though this Apsines is called a Lacedaemonian.[2]
This Apsines and his disciples were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetorician at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress.[3]