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Favorinus, the sophist, had said of him that one might cry over his handsome locomotive corpse, if one were not obliged to laugh at it, and it was said that he had himself declared that he would force his faithless youth to remain with him.

The philosophers, Pancrates and Dionysius and Apollonius, who took no wine at all, were giving a detailed account of the different phases of this remarkable disputation and praising the admirable memory and the ready tongue of the great monarch. "And you did not even see him at his best," exclaimed Favorinus, the Gaul, the sophist and rhetorician.

The philosophers, Pancrates and Dionysius and Apollonius, who took no wine at all, were giving a detailed account of the different phases of this remarkable disputation and praising the admirable memory and the ready tongue of the great monarch. "And you did not even see him at his best," exclaimed Favorinus, the Gaul, the sophist and rhetorician.

The philosophers, Pancrates and Dionysius and Apollonius, who took no wine at all, were giving a detailed account of the different phases of this remarkable disputation and praising the admirable memory and the ready tongue of the great monarch. "And you did not even see him at his best," exclaimed Favorinus, the Gaul, the sophist and rhetorician.

"Send some interesting people say the astronomer Ptolemaeus, and Favorinus, the sophist, who await him here to meet him at Pelusium. They will find some way of detaining him there." "Not a bad idea! We will see. But who can reckon on the Empress's moods? At any rate, consider that you have only eight days to dispose of." "Good." "Where do you hope to be able to lodge Hadrian?"

"Still you have recognized the phenomenon, but you disapprove of Favorinus' explanation of it?" "Yes, for I have met men and things as old acquaintances which never saw the light till long after I was born.

In all practical teaching the point of the lesson is known beforehand; it is the manner of enforcing it that alone excites interest. Thus philosophy and rhetoric, which had hitherto been implacable foes, became reconciled in the furtherance of a common object. Seneca had affected to despise learning; Gellius and Favorinus, on the contrary, delighted in its minutest subtleties.

Among contemporary philosophers he admires most Plutarch, Favorinus, and Herodes Atticus the rival of Fronto. He smiles at the enthusiasm with which some regard all that is obsolete, and mentions the Ennianistae with half-disapproval. But his own bias inclines the same way, only he brings more taste to it than they.

"Still you have recognized the phenomenon, but you disapprove of Favorinus' explanation of it?" "Yes, for I have met men and things as old acquaintances which never saw the light till long after I was born.

He was trained in philosophy under Favorinus, in rhetoric under Antonius Julianus and, perhaps, Fronto, but his style and taste are, on the whole, purer than those of his preceptors. The title Noctes Atticae was chosen, primarily, because the book was written at Athens and during the lucubrations of the night; but its modesty was also a recommendation in his eyes.

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