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See Bayle, Art. Apollonius; and Brucker. Bishop Lloyd considers them spurious, but Olearius and Brucker show that there is good reason from internal evidence to suppose them genuine. See Olear. Addend. ad præfat. Epistol.; and Brucker, vol. ii. p. 147. Apollonius continued at Ephesus, Smyrna, etc., from A.D. 50 to about 59, and was at Rome from A.D. 63 to 66. St.
Paul passed through Ionia into Greece A.D. 53, and was at Ephesus A.D. 54, and again from A.D. 56 to 58; he was at Rome in A.D. 65 and 66, when he was martyred. Lucian and Apuleius speak of him as if his name were familiar to them. Olear. præf. ad Vit. In Hierocl. 5. Inst. v. 3. See Bayle, Art. Apollonius; and Cudworth, Intell. Syst. iv. 14. Philostr. viii. 19, 20.
Blount. Philostr. i. 3. Philostr. i. 2, 3. Philostr i. 17, vi. 11. Philostr. i. 7. Ibid. i. 8. Ibid. i. 13. Ibid. i. 14, 15. Brucker, vol. ii. p. 104. Philostr. i. 16. See Olear. præfat. ad vitam. As he died, U.C. 849, he is usually considered to have lived to a hundred.
At Eleusis, and the Cave of Triphonius, Apollonius was, as we have seen, accounted a magician, and so also by Euphrates, Moeragenes, Apuleius, etc. See Olear. Præf. ad vit. p. 33; and Brucker, vol. ii. p. 136, note k. See Mosheim, Dissertat. de turbatâ Ecclesiâ, etc., Sec. 27. See Quæst. ad Orthodox 24 as quoted by Olearius, in his Preface, p. 34. Apollon. Epist. 17. Vid.
See also ii. 12, where, by some inaccuracy, he makes him to have been in India twenty years before he was at Babylon. Olear. ad locum et præfat. ad vit. The common date of his birth is fixed by his biographer's merely accidental mention of the revolt of Archelaus against the Romans, as taking place before Apollonius was twenty years old; see i. 12. Philostr. i. 19. Philostr. i. 27-41.
Olear. Vid. viii, 7, § 9. See also ii. 37, vi. 11, viii. 5. Philostr. i. 2, and Olear. ad loc. note 3, iv. 44, v. 12, vii. 39, viii. 7; Apollon. Epist. 8 and 52; Philostr. Prooem. vit. Sophist.; Euseb. in Hier. 2; Mosheim, de Simone Mago, Sec. 13. Yet it must be confessed that the views both of the Pythagoreans and Eclectics were very inconsistent on this subject. See Brucker, vol. ii. p. 447.
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