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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:S.sibyntius_1</requestUrn>
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            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:S.sibyntius_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <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="S"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="sibyntius-bio-1" n="sibyntius_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Siby'ntius</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Σιβύντιος</surname></persName>), a reader and a slave
      of the orator Theodectes of Phaselis, who died before <date when-custom="-333">B. C. 333</date>, was
      the first slave who professed the art of oratory. He wrote some works on rhetoric, which are
      mentioned by Suidas (<hi rend="ital">s.v.</hi>) (Comp. Westermann, <hi rend="ital">Geschichte
       der Griech. Beredtsamkeit,</hi> § 50, n. 6.)</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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