Editing Libanius (section)

===Origin===
Libanius was born in [[Antioch]], [[Coele Syria (Roman province)|Coele-Syria]] located near the modern-day city of [[Antakya]], [[Turkey]]. He was born into a deeply cultured and once-influential family that had experienced substantial recent decline. In 303 AD, eleven years before his birth, his family had participated in resisting an insurrection by a local army garrison. In the end, Roman Imperial authorities were equally concerned by local aristocrats arming themselves as they were by the rebellious troops. Libanius' family fell out of favor and his grandfather was executed. Libanius' father died when he was eleven, leaving his upbringing to his mother and maternal uncles, who were in the process of rebuilding his family's reputation.<ref name="EB1911" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bradbury |first1=Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeDklnSViQgC |title=Selected Letters of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian |last2=Libanius |last3=Bradbury |first3=Scott A. |date=2004 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-0-85323-509-5 |pages=2–3 |language=en}}</ref>

At fourteen years old he began his study of [[rhetoric]], for which he withdrew from public life and devoted himself to philosophy. Unfamiliar with [[Latin (language)|Latin literature]], he deplored its influence.