Philostratus

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Philostratus (170–245)

Greek sophist and rhetorician. After teaching at Athens he went to Rome, where he was requested by the empress Julia Domna to write the Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Other works certainly by Phliostratus are Lives of the Sophists and the first collection of Imagines (descriptions of pictures).

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A scholiast renders `giving eight mouthfulls'; but the elder Philostratus uses the word in contrast to `leavened'.

Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context

" There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and "by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe" the monster could be thrown into a magical sleep and slain.

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