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But besides those we have mentioned to confirm Plato's opinion, let us produce Philistion of Locri, very ancient and very famous physician, and Hippocrates too, with his disciple Dioxippus; for they thought of no other passage but that which Plato mentions.
Moreover the impostor said that Athena again was identical with what they called Thought, making use forsooth of the words of the holy apostle Paul changing the truth into his own lie to wit: "Put on the breastplate of faith and the helmet of salvation, and the greaves and sword and buckler"; and that all this was in the mimes of Philistion, the rogue! words uttered by the apostle with firm reasoning and faith of holy conversation, and the power of the divine and heavenly word turning them further into a joke and nothing more.
This, of course, we know is different, as we have seen that, from time immemorial Pantomimic scenes and dances have been represented. Cassiodorus attributes its institution to Philistion; Athenaens assigns it to Rhodamanthus, or to Palamedes. With the Greeks, Pantomimes became very popular, and they were distinguished by various names.
They were then allowed to enter, in order to converse with their relations and friends; when, laying before them the terms which they had made with Marcellus, and holding out to them a hope of safety, they induced them to join with them in an attack upon the prefects of Epicydes, Polyclitus, Philistion, and Epicydes, surnamed Sindon.
How long then? Think continually that all kinds of men and men of all kinds of pursuits and of all nations are dead, so that thy thoughts come down even to Philistion and Phoebus and Origanion. As to all these consider that they have long been in the dust. What harm then is this to them; and what to those whose names are altogether unknown?
Yet Plato had to testify for him the most renowned of the physicians, Hippocrates, Philistion, and Dioxippus the disciple of Hippocrates; and of the poets, Euripides, Aleaeus, Eupolis, and Eratosthenes, who all say that the drink passes through the lungs.
Tuscul., Verrius, Aristotle, Titus Livius, in his relation of the battle of Cannae, Plinius, lib. 7, cap. 32 and 34, A. Gellius, lib. 3, c. 15, and many other writers, to Diagoras the Rhodian, Chilon, Sophocles, Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, Philippides, Philemon, Polycrates, Philistion, M. Juventi, and others who died with joy.
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