ALEXANDER, son of Numenius, Greek rhetorician, flourished in the first half of the second century A.D., author of a treatise on rhetoric (llepi TWV Trls (51.avotas Tiffs X €ws QX?µarwv), of which only an abridgment is extant; it was fol lowed as an authority by later writers. Later epitomes were made in Latin by Aquila Romanus and Julius Rufinianus under the title De Figuris Sententiarum et Elocutionis.
Text in Spengel, Rhetores Graeci (1856).