Hierocles

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Hierocles (or Hierokles) was a common first name in the Hellenized world and later in the Roman Empire that conquered much of it.

Hierocles- proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria, during the reign of Diocletian.
Hierocles- the presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus.
Hierocles of Alexandria- Neoplatonist writer of the 5th century.
Hierocles - a soothsayer in the play Peace by Aristophanes.
Hierocles - the otherwise unknown author of the Synecdemus.

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