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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menippus-bio-7" n="menippus_7"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Menippus</surname></persName></head><p>3. Of Stratonice, a Carian by birth, was the most accomplished orator of his time in all
      Asia. (About <date when-custom="-79">B. C. 79</date>.) Cicero, who heard him, puts him almost on a
      level with the Attic orators (<hi rend="ital">Brut.</hi> 91; <bibl n="Plut. Cic. 4">Plut. Cic.
       4</bibl>; <bibl n="D. L. 6.101">D. L. 6.101</bibl>; <bibl n="Strabo xiv.p.660">Strab. xiv.
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