Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius of Alabanda ^[1] (also Apollonius Malakos, Appolonius Malachus)^[2] (malakos meaning 'soft', with the potential implication of 'effeminate') (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακός) was a Greek sophist rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.^[3]

After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric.^[4] Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of Mark Antony.^[5][6]