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Potamo or Potamon (Template:Lang-el; c. 75 BC – c. 15 AD) of Mytilene in Lesbos,[1] son of Lesbonax the rhetorician, was himself a rhetorician in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, whose favour he enjoyed.[2] He is mentioned by Plutarch as an authority regarding Alexander the Great.[3] It is probably he whom Lucian states to have attained the age of ninety.[4] The Suda informs us that, in addition to his work On Alexander of Macedon, he wrote several other works, namely Annals of the Samians, Encomium of Brutus, Encomium of Caesar, and On the Perfect Orator. To these should perhaps be added On the Different, quoted by Ammonius Grammaticus.

Notes

  1. ^ Strabo, xiii.
  2. ^ Suda, Potamon
  3. ^ Plutarch, Alex. 61
  4. ^ Lucian, Macrob. § 23

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

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