A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

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Minucia'nus

2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign of Gallienus (A. D. 260-2681).

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Works

Suidas (s. v.) tells us that Minucianus was the author of Τέχνη ῥητορική, προγυμνάσματα, and Λογοί διάφοροι.

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The Τεχνη was commented on by the sophist Pancratius (Suidas, s. v. Παγκρ.; Eudoc. p. 301), and is also referred to by Tzetzes (Chil. 4.693, 6.739, 12.570), but, as Westermann suggests, it may have been written by the elder Minucianus [No. 1]. A portion of this work, entitled Περὶ ἐπιχειρημάτων, is extant, and bears the title Μινουκιανοῦ ἢ νικαγόρου.

Editions

It was published along with Alexander Numenius and Phoebammon, accompanied with a Latin version, by L. Normann. Upsal. 1690, 8vo., and is also printed in the Aldine collection of Greek rhetoricians, pp. 731-734, and in the ninth volume of Walz's Rhetores Graeci.

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Προγυμνάσματα

The work of Minucianus, entitled Προγυμνάσματα, was commented on by Menander of Laodiceia (Suidas, s. v. Μενανδ.).

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Assessment

The eloquence of Minucianus is praised by Himerius.

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Further Information

Ecl. vii. p. 166, Or. xxiii. p. 802, ed. Wernsdorf.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. 107, 108; Westermann, Ibid, § 98, n. 15.