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Agnon was an ancient Greek Greek rhetorician, who wrote a work against rhetoric, which Quintilian calls "Rhetorices accusatio." Some moern scholars have considered this Agnon to be the same man as the demagogue Agnonides, the contempo­rary of Phocion, as the latter is in some manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos called Agnon. But the manner in which Agnon is mentioned by Quin­tilian shows that he is a rhetorician, who lived at a much later period than the 4th century BC suggested by an identification with Agnonides. Whether however he is the same as the academic philosopher mentioned by Athenaeus is still a matter of some debate.

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