Note 359 — APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

E. G. his ambitious descriptions of countries, etc. In iv. 30, 32, v. 22, vi. 24, he ascribes to Apollonius regular Socratic disputations, and in vi. 11, a long and flowery speech in the presence of the Gymnosophists—modes of philosophical instruction totally at variance with the genius of the Pythagorean school, the Philosopher's Letters still extant, and the writer's own description of his manner of teaching, i. 17. Some of his exaggerations and mis-statements have been noticed in the course of the narrative. As a specimen of the rhetorical style in which the work is written, vid. his account of the restoration of the Roman damsel, Ὁ δἑ οὑδεν αλλ ἡ προσαψἁμενος αὑτἡς αφὑπνισε,—contrast this with the simplicity of the Scripture narrative. See also the last sentence of v. 17, and indeed passim.