Abla'bius2. The illustrious (Ἰλλούστριος), the author of an
epigram in the Greek Anthology (9.762) " on the quoit of
Asclepiades." Nothing more is known of him, unless he be the same person as Ablabius, the
Novatian bishop of Nicaea, who was a disciple of the rhetorician Troilus, and himself eminent
in the same profession, and who lived under Honorius and Theodosius II., at the end of the
fourth and the beginning of the fifth centuries after Christ. (Socrates, Hist.
Eccl. 7.12.)
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