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Apollonius Molon
Apollonius Molon was a Greek rhetorician from Alabanda in Caria who taught on Rhodes in the early first century BCE. He visited Rome as an ambassador of Rhodes in 81 BCE, and among his pupils were Cicero, who studied with him on Rhodes in 78 BCE, and Julius Caesar. He favoured a moderate style between the plain Attic and the florid Asian manners.
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