Hermagoras

Hermăgŏras and Hermăgŏra (the latter is the Ciceron. form acc. to Quint. 1, 5, 61), ae, m., = Ἑρμαγόρας.

• A celebrated Greek rhetorician of Rhodes, Cic. Brut. 78, 271; id. Inv. 1, 6, 8; 1, 9, 12; 1, 11, 16; Quint. 3, 1, 16; 3, 5, 14 et saep.— Hermăgŏrēi, ōrum, m., his disciples, Quint. 3, 1, 16; 3, 5, 4; 7, 4, 4.—
• II Another rhetorician of Temnos in Aeolis, in the time of Augustus, Quint. 3, 1, 19; Tac. Or. 19.

Hermagorās, ae, Akk. ān, m. (Ἑρμαγόρας), I) ein griechischer Rhetor aus Rhodus, der etwa in der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jahrh. v. Chr. mit einem besondern rhetorischen System auftrat, Cic. de inv. 1, 8 u. Brut. 263. Quint. 3, 9, 16 u. 3, 11, 8. – II) ein griech. Rhetor aus Temnos in Äolis, Zeitgenosse des Augustus u. Tiberius, Schüler des Theodorus von Gadara, Quint. 3, 1, 18. – Dav. Hermagorēī, ōrum, m., die Schüler des Hermagoras (no. I), die Hermagoreer, Quint. 7, 4, 4.

Hermăgŏrās, (16) æ, m. (Ἑρμαγόρας), rhéteur grec : Cic. Br. 271 || -rēī, ōrum, m. , disciples dʼHermagoras : Quint. 3, 1, 16.

Herma'goras

(Ἑρμαγόρας.)

1. Of Temnos, a distinguished Greek rhetorician of the time of Pompey and Cicero. He belonged to the Rhodian school of oratory, and appears to have tried to excel as an orator (or rather declaimer) as well as a teacher of rhetoric. (Quint. Inst. 5.3.59, viii. pr. § 3; Suid. s. v. Ἑρμαγόρας.) But it is especially as a teacher of rhetoric that he is known to us. He devoted particular attention to what is called the invention, and made a peculiar division of the parts of an oration, which differed from that adopted by other rhetoricians. (Quint. Inst. 3.1.16.) Cicero (de Invent. 1.6) opposes his system, but Quintilian defends it (3.3.9, 5. §§ 4, 16, &c., 6.56), though in some parts the latter censures what Cicero approves of. (Cic. de Invent. 1.11; Quint. Inst. 3.6.60, &c.) But in his eagerness to systematise the parts of an oration, he entirely lost sight of the practical point of view from which oratory must be regarded. (Quint. Inst. 3.11.22; Tacit. de Orat. 19.) He appears to have been the author of several works which are lost; Suidas mentions Ῥητορικαί, Περὶ ἐζεργασίας, Περὶ φράσεως, Περὶ σχηνάτων, Περὶ πρέποντος. (See the passages in which Cicero discusses the views of Hermagoras in Orelli's Onom. Tull. s. v.; comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamk. § 81. note 11.83. notes 11-13; C. G. Piderit, de Hermagora Rhetore Commentatio, Hersfeld, 1839, 4to.)

Herma'goras

2. Surnamed Carion, likewise a Greek rhetorician, who lived in the time of Augustus, and taught rhetoric at Rome, together with Caecilius, and is called Hermagoras the younger. He was a disciple of Theodorus of Gadara. (Quint. Inst. 3.1.18; Suid. s. v. Ἐρμαγόρας, who confounds the Temnian with Hermagoras Carion.) Whether the Hermagoras with whom Pompey, on his return from Asia, disputed at Rhodes Περί τῆς καθ̓ ὅλον ζητήσεως (Plat. Pomp. 42), is the younger or elder one, is uncertain.

Herma'goras

3. Of Amphipolis, a Stoic philosopher and disciple of Perseus, the slave and afterwards freedman of Zeno. He is mentioned only by Suidas (l.c.), who also gives the titles of some of his works, which are completely lost. [L.S]

Hermagŏras

(Ἑρμαγόρας). (1) Of Temnos, a distinguished Greek rhetorician of the time of Cicero, belonging to the Rhodian school of oratory (Quint.iii. 1. 16).

(2) A Greek rhetorician, surnamed Carion, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Augustus (Quint.iii. 1. 18).