Xenocles of Adramyttium explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Perrin, Bernadotte . Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin . 1919 . Harvard University Press. 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. Web site: Cicero: Brutus . The Latin Library.