Gene'thlius(Γενέθλιος), of Patrae, in
Palestine, a Greek rhetorician, who lived between the reigns of the emperors Philippus and
Constantine. He was a pupil of Mucianus and Agapetus, and taught rhetoric at Athens, where he
died at the early age 'of twenty-eight. He was an enemy and a rival of his countryman
Callinicus.
Works
Suidas (s. v.
Γενέθλιος), to whom we are indebted for this
information, enumerates a variety of works which Genethlius wrote, declamations, panegyrics,
and commentaries on Demosthenes; but not a trace of them has come down to us. (Comp. Eudoc.
p. 1100; Hesych. Miles. s. v.
Γενέθλιος.)
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