Native of Palestine, official rhetoriRole name: rhetor at Antioch Lib. Or. XXXVI 10 in succession to Aedesius 1 Lib. Or. IV 9; teacheriRole name: teacher of Libanius Lib. Or. I 96, Ep. 101, 420, whom he invited c. 354 to be his successor, although when Libanius arrived in Antioch Zenobius decided not to retire after all Lib. Or. I 100 (with Norman, Libanius’ Autobiography, 1965, p. 173); arrested by Gallus after riots in 354, but reconciled to him by a speech from Libanius Or. I 96-7; fell ill in 354 and died in 355, when Libanius recited a monody on him and, soon after, an ἐγκώμιον Or. I 105, Ep. 405. He was related to the Boethi, father and son. Lib. Ep. 118, 119, 420, 532, and to Zenobius (the eirenophylax of Elusa) Ep. 101; he was ἀνεψιός ofArgyrius Ep. 101; teacher of Calliopius 3 Lib. Ep. 18, 625, and Hieronymus Ep. 335, cf. also Lib. Ep. 727 and Ep. 15 (to Zenobius, in 352 or 354).