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Where this philosophy was in the time of Cicero, there it continued to be in the time of Seneca, and there it continued to be in the time of Favorinus. The same sects were still battling with the same unsatisfactory arguments, about the same interminable questions. There had been no want of ingenuity, of zeal, of industry. Every trace of intellectual cultivation was there, except a harvest.
"He is my brother," repeated Favorinus, "and as for his eyes, I have seen them flash by Hercules! like the radiant sun, or merry twinkling stars! And his mouth! I know him well! He is my brother, and I will wager that while he condescended it is too comical condescended to dispute with you with you, there was a sly smile at each corner of his mouth so look now like this he smiled."
Lettres Péruviennes. Oeuv., ii. 785-794. Corr. Lit., iii. 65. Emile, I. 27. It is interesting to recall a similar movement in the Roman society of the second century of our era. See the advice of Favorinus to mothers, in Aulus Gellius, xii. 1.
"There is only one thing," he cried eagerly, "that I cannot approve of; he is too little at Rome, which is now the core and centre of the world. He must need see every thing for himself, and he is always wandering restlessly through the provinces. I should not care to change with him!" "You have expressed the same ideas in verse," said Favorinus. "Oh! a jest at supper-time.
Favorinus who had been engaged in talk with Ptolemaeus, the astronomer, Apollonius, and the philosopher and poet Pancrates in another part of the hall, looked after the two men and said: "A handsome couple. One the personification of imperial and dignified Rome; the other with his Hermes-like figure."
"He is my brother," repeated Favorinus, "and as for his eyes, I have seen them flash by Hercules! like the radiant sun, or merry twinkling stars! And his mouth! I know him well! He is my brother, and I will wager that while he condescended it is too comical condescended to dispute with you with you, there was a sly smile at each corner of his mouth so look now like this he smiled."
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect.
Over there sits Favorinus, the sophist; I dare say he is proving to Ptolemaeus that the stars are mere specks of blood in our eyes, which we choose to believe are in the sky. Florus, the historian, is taking note of this weighty discussion; Pancrates, the poet, is celebrating the great thoughts of the philosopher.
He calls this degree /stata forma/, a rational, mediocre sort of beauty, which is not liable to be either /koine/ or /poine/. And Favorinus, who was a remarkably sensible man, and came from Provence the male inhabitants of which district have always valued themselves on their knowledge of love and ladies calls this said /stata forma/ the beauty of wives, the uxorial beauty.
Favorinus tells us how Epictetus would also say that there were two faults far graver and fouler than any others inability to bear, and inability to forbear, when we neither patiently bear the blows that must be borne, nor abstain from the things and the pleasures we ought to abstain from. "So," he went on, "if a man will only have these two words at heart, and heed them carefully by ruling and watching over himself, he will for the most part fall into no sin, and his life will be tranquil and serene." He meant the words
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