Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius of Alabanda {{Cite book |last1=Martano |first1=Andrea |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-pGDwAAQBAJ&dq=apollonius+malakos&pg=PA67 |title=Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Text, Translation, and Discussion |last2=Matelli |first2=Elisabetta |last3=Mirhady |first3=David |date=2018-01-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-49713-8 |language=en}} (also Apollonius Malakos, Appolonius Malachus){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0VoBAQAAQBAJ&dq=apollonius+malakos&pg=PA160 |title=The Sophists: An Introduction |date=2013-10-10 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4725-2119-4 |language=en}} (malakos meaning 'soft', with the potential implication of 'effeminate') ({{langx|grc|Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακός}}) was a Greek sophist rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.{{Cite book |last1=Rhodios |first1=Apollonios |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8-Vehm4iqkC&dq=apollonius+of+rhodes+alabanda&pg=PR9 |title=The Argonautika |last2=Apollonius (Rhodius.) |date=2007-12-05 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-25393-3 |language=en}}

After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Apollonius (the Effeminate)|display=Appolonius|volume=2|page=186}} Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of Mark Antony.{{cite book| author= Cicero| author-link= Cicero| title= De Oratore| volume= 1| issue= 75}}{{Cite book |last=Hazel |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DWCAgAAQBAJ&dq=apollonius+malakos&pg=PA18 |title=Who's Who in the Roman World |date=2002-09-26 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-59252-4 |language=en}}