Apsines (Ancient Greek: Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens.
He was a son of Onasimus (Ancient Greek: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist.
It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian,[1] and who taught rhetoric at Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth century CE, though this Apsines is called a Lacedaemonian.
[2] This Apsines and his disciples were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetorician at Athens, and to his school.
This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress.