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Libanius (Fourth Century)
Libanius (li-bā’ni-us). A Greek sophist of the fourth century; native of Antioch in Syria. Though a heathen, he was beloved by St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom, once his pupils. He was a voluminous writer, and very successfully imitated in his orations the style of Demosthenes; he got the nickname of “the little Demosthenes.” Of his orations 68 are extant: they are of value for the history of his time; the same is to be said of his ‘Epistles,’ of which 1,607 remain.