Polyaenus
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2nd-century Greek author and rhetorician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Polyaenus or Polyenus was a 2nd-century CE Greek author, known best for his Stratagems in War , which has been preserved. He was born in Bithynia. The Suda calls him a rhetorician, and Polyaenus himself writes that he was accustomed to plead causes before the Roman emperor. Polyaenus dedicated Stratagems in War to the two emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus , while they were engaged in the Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, about 163, at which time he was too old to accompany them in their campaigns.
