, (or ὁ
Νουμηνίου, as Suidas calls him), a Greek rhetorician, who lived in the reign of
Hadrian or that of the Antonines. About his life nothing is known.
Works
We possess two works which are ascribed to him.
De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis
The one which certainly is his work bears the title
Περὶ τῶν
τῆς Διανοίας καὶ Λέξεως Σχημάτων, i. e.De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis. J. Rufinianus in his
work on the same subject (p. 159, ed. Ruhnken) expressly states that Aquila Romanus, in his
treatise " De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis," took his materials from Alexander
Numenius' work mentioned above.
On Show-speeches
The second work bearing the name of Alexander Numenius, entitled
Περὶ Ἐπιδεικτικῶν, i. e.On Show-speeches, is admitted on all hands not to be his work,
but of a later grammarian of the name of Alexander; it is, to speak more correctly, made up
very clumsily from two distinct ones, one of which was written by one Alexander, and the
other by Menander. (Vales. ad Euseb. Hist. Eccles. p. 28.)
Editions
The first edition of these two works is that of Aldus, in his collection of the
Rhetores Graeci, Venice, 1508, fol., vol. i. p. 574, &c.They are also contained in Walz's Rhetores Graeci, vol.
viii.
The genuine work of Alexander Numenius has also been edited, together with Minucianus
and Phoebammon, by L. Normann, with a Latin translation and useful notes, Upsala, 1690,
8vo.
Further Information
See Ruhnken, ad Aquil. Rom. p. 139, &c.; Westermann, Gesch. der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 953, n. 13.104, n. 7.