Empylus

Empylus (1st century BC) was an Ancient Roman rhetorician. He was the companion, as we are told by Plutarch, of Brutus, to whom he dedicated a short essay, not destitute of merit, on the death of Caesar. It is not stated to what country he belonged.

"Empylus the Rhodian" is mentioned in a passage of Quintilian, where the text is very doubtful, as an orator referred to by Cicero, but no such name occurs in any extant work of the latter.[1]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Ramsay (1870). Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Footnotes

1. Plut Brut. 2; Quintil. x. 6. § 4, and Spalding's note. (cited by Ramsay)