Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Numenius

（Νουμήνιος).

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1.

A Greek philosopher of the Platonic School, who is supposed to have flourished about the end of the second century of our era. He was born at Apamea, in Syria, and was regarded as an oracle of wisdom. He was the author of a treatise, entitled Περὶ τῆς τῶν Ἀκαδημαϊκῶν περὶ Πλάτωνα διαστάσεως (“Of the Disagreement among the Academic Philosophers respecting Plato”). Eusebius has preserved some fragments of this work.

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2.

A Greek rhetorician, who flourished in the time of the Antonines. He wrote two works, which have been printed in the Aldine Rhetorical Collection.

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3.

An epigrammatic poet; a native of Tarsus.