of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician, surnamed Z" vor'ip (the polisher), flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 161 -180). His precocious ability secured him a public appointment as teacher of his art while as yet he was only a boy; but at the age of twenty-five his faculties gave way, and he spent the remainder of his long life in a state of intellectual impotence. During his early years, however, he had composed a series of rhetorical treatises, which became popular text-books, and the subject of subsequent commentaries. Of his T Exmat pltropiK- we still possess the sections Hem: TO., o"TaQEWP (on legal issues), HEpi Eb i 4creWS (on the invention of arguments), IIEpl &v (on the various kinds of style),Ilepi µ€BOSov Secvot1ttos (on the method of speaking effectively), and llpoyvµvho-µaTa rhetorical exercises). Editions by C. Walz (1832), and by L. Spengel (1854), in their Rhetores Graeci; bibliographical note on the commentaries in W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (1898).