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Updated: June 4, 2025
Dionysius of Miletus also received his salary as a professor in the museum while teaching philosophy and mnemonicsat Miletus and Ephesus. Pancrates, the Alexandrian poet, gained his salary in the museum by the easy task of a little flattery.
"One must dive to obtain what lies at the bottom of the water all that floats on the surface is borne by the waves, a plaything for children. Apollonius is a very learned man." "Then my husband ought to leave him among his disciples and his books. It was his wish that I should invite these people to my table. Florus and Pancrates I like not the others."
In behind here the sophists Demetrius and Pancrates are entertaining a few great men from Rome, rhetoricians or philosophers or something of the kind. Now they are bringing in the fine lamps and they have been sitting and talking at that table ever since breakfast. There come the guests out of the side room. Will you take it?" "Yes," said Hadrian.
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.
'Yet ye do me wrong; for had I the servants of Pancrates, assuredly he should hear no groans of injustice from men of good will. 'It is too good hearing, Katharine said gravely. 'This is my tale Once before she had trembled in this man's presence, and still she had a catching in the throat as her eyes measured his face.
He was said to have passed twenty-three years of his life underground in the tombs, studying occult sciences under the instruction of Isis herself. 'You must mean the divine Pancrates, my teacher, exclaimed Arignotus; 'tall, clean-shaven, snub-nosed, protruding lips, rather thin in the legs; dresses entirely in linen, has a thoughtful expression, and speaks Greek with a slight accent? 'Yes, it was Pancrates himself.
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.
In behind here the sophists Demetrius and Pancrates are entertaining a few great men from Rome, rhetoricians or philosophers or something of the kind. Now they are bringing in the fine lamps and they have been sitting and talking at that table ever since breakfast. There come the guests out of the side room. Will you take it?" "Yes," said Hadrian.
So long as I am in Alexandria and waiting on Caesar I can make myself very comfortable every day at the 'Olympian table' of this admirable cook." "But how runs your poem?" asked Pancrates. "I have forgotten it, and it deserved no better fate," replied Florus. "But I," laughed the Gaul, "I remember the beginning.
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.
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