Zoilus appears to have been at one time a follower of Isocrates, but subsequently a pupil of Polycrates, whom he heard at Athens, where he was a teacher of rhetoric. Zoilus was chiefly known for the acerbity of his attacks on Homer (which gained him the name of Homeromastix, scourge of Homer), chi
acerbity הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד