Alcimus (disambiguation)
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Alcimus may refer to a number of people from classical history:
- Alcimus (mythology), name of several figures in Greek mythology
- Alcimus (rhetorician)Alcimus (rhetorician)Alcimus was a Greek rhetorician who flourished around 300 BC. He was called by Diogenes Laërtius the most distinguished of all Greek rhetoricians. It is not certain whether he is the same as the Alcimus to whom Diogenes in another passage ascribes a work called Pros Amuntan...
, Greek rhetorician of the 3rd century BC - AlcimusAlcimusAlcimus , also called Jacimus, or Joachim , was a High Priest of Israel for three years, 162 BCE-159 BCE, who espoused the Syrian cause....
, high priest in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC - Alcimus AlethiusAlcimus AlethiusAlcimus Alethius was the writer of seven short poems in the Latin Anthology. Classical scholar J.C. Wernsdorf believed him to be the same person as Alcimus, the rhetorician in Aquitania, in Gaul, who is spoken of in terms of high praise by Sidonius Apollinaris and Ausonius...
, 4th century Latin poet - Avitus of VienneAvitus of VienneAlcimus Ecdicius Avitus was a Latin poet and archbishop of Vienne in Gaul.Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family in the kinship of Emperor Avitus.-Life:...
(died 523), bishop, also known as Saint Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus