Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius of Alabanda (also Apollonius Malakos, Appolonius Malachus) (malakos meaning 'soft', with the potential implication of 'effeminate') (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακος) was a Greek sophist rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.

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