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Updated: June 4, 2025
Philosophers now declaimed like rhetoricians, and indifferently in either language. But in proportion as they addressed a larger public, it became more necessary to use the Greek, which was now the language of the civilized world. Favorinus, Epictetus, M. Aurelius himself, all wrote and generally spoke in it.
"I can easily relieve you of the company of Favorinus and Ptolemaeus; send them to meet the Emperor." "To what end?" "To entertain him." "He has his plaything with him," said Sabina, and her thin lips curled with an expression of bitter contempt. "His artistic eye delights in the beauty of Antinous, which is celebrated, but which it has not yet been my privilege to see."
"The other" interrupted the philologist with stern displeasure, "the other is the very incarnation of the haughtiness, the luxury pushed to insanity, and the infamous depravity of the metropolis. That dissipated ladies-man." "I will not defend his character," said Favorinus in his pleasant voice, and with an elegance in his pronunciation of Greek which delighted even the grammarian.
Other topics made our walks every day very pleasant, but the common saying concerning dreams, that those in autumn are the vainest, I know not how, whilst Favorinus was engaged in other matters, was started after supper.
The circle of couches on which lay Florus, Favorinus and their Alexandrian friends stood like an island in the midst of the surging sea of the orgy. Even here the cup had been bravely passed round, and Florus was beginning to speak somewhat indistinctly, but conversation had hitherto had the upper hand.
"Tell us, go on, out with your stories. They are all old friends!" stammered Florus. "But while Favorinus chatters we can drink." The Gaul cast a contemptuous glance at the Roman, and answered promptly: "My stories are too good for a drunken man."
For thus several ages since, Homer wrote of no more weighty a subject than of a war between the frogs and mice, Virgil of a gnat and a pudding-cake, and Ovid of a nut Poly-crates commended the cruelty of Busiris; and Isocrates, that corrects him for this, did as much for the injustice of Glaucus. Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague.
"Tell us, go on, out with your stories. They are all old friends!" stammered Florus. "But while Favorinus chatters we can drink." The Gaul cast a contemptuous glance at the Roman, and answered promptly: "My stories are too good for a drunken man."
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect.
"The other" interrupted the philologist with stern displeasure, "the other is the very incarnation of the haughtiness, the luxury pushed to insanity, and the infamous depravity of the metropolis. That dissipated ladies-man." "I will not defend his character," said Favorinus in his pleasant voice, and with an elegance in his pronunciation of Greek which delighted even the grammarian.
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