A poll on i us

, a Stoic philosopher of Chalcis, sent for by Ant on in us Pius, to instruct his adopted son Marcus Ant on in us. When he came to Rome, he refused to go to the palace, observing that the master ought not to wait upon his pupil, but the pupil upon him. The emperor hearing this, said, laughing, “It was then easier for A poll on i us to come from Chalcis to Rome, than from Rome to the palace.”――A geometrician of Perge in Pamphylia, whose works are now lost. He lived about 240 years before the christian era, and composed a commentary on Euclid, whose pupils he attended at Alexandria. He wrote treatises on conic sections, eight of which are now extant; and he first endeavoured to explain the causes of the apparent stopping and retrograde motion of the planets, by cycles and epicycles, or circles within circles. The best edition of A poll on i us is Dr.  Halley’s, Oxford, folio, 1710.――A poet of Naucratis in Egypt, generally called A poll on i us of Rhodes , because he lived for some time there. He was pupil, when young, to Call i mach us and Panætius, and succeeded to Eratosthenes as third librarian of the famous library of Alexandria, under Ptolemy Evergetes. He was ungrateful to his master Call i mach us, who wrote a poem against him, in which he denominated him Ibis . Of all his works, nothing remains but his poem on the expedition of the Argonauts, in four books. The best editions of A poll on i us are those printed at Oxford, in 4to, by Shaw, 1777, 2  vols. ; and in 1  vol. , 8vo, 1779; and that of Brunck, Str as bourg, 12mo, 1780. Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .――A Greek orator, surnamed Molo, was a native of A lab and a in Caria. He opened a school of rhetoric at Rhodes and Rome, and had Julius Cæsar and Cicero among his pupils. He discouraged the attendance of those whom he supposed incapable of distinguishing themselves as orators, and he recommended to them pursuits more congenial to their abilities. He wrote a history, in which he did not candidly treat the people of Judæa, according to the complaint of Joseph us, against Apion .— Cicero , On Oratory , bk. 1 , chs. 28, 75, 126, & 130; Letters to his Friends , bk. 3 , ltr. 16 ; De Invent i one , bk. 1 , ch. 81 .— Quintilian , bk. 3 , ch. 1 ; bk. 12 , ch. 6 .— Suet on i us , Cæsar , ch. 4 .— Plutarch , Cæsar .――A Greek historian about the age of August us, who wrote upon the philosophy of Zeno and of his followers. Strabo , bk. 14 .――A Stoic philosopher, who attended Cato of Utica in his last moments. Plutarch , Cato .――An officer set over Egypt by Alexander. Curtius , bk. 4 , ch. 8 .――A wrestler. Pausanias , bk. 5 .――A physician of Pergamus, who wrote on agriculture. Varro. ――A grammarian of Alexandria.――A writer in the age of Ant on in us Pius.――Thyaneus, a Pythagorean philosopher, well skilled in the secret arts of magic. Being one day haranguing the populace at Ephesus, he suddenly exclaimed, “Strike the tyrant, strike him; the blow is given, he is wounded, and fallen!” At that very moment the emperor Domitian had been stabbed at Rome. The magician acquired much reputation when this circumstance was known. He was courted by kings and princes, and commanded unusual attention by his numberle artifices. His friend and companion, called Damis, wrote his life, which 200 years after engaged the attention of Phi lost ratus. In his history the biographer relates so many curious and extraordinary anecdotes of the hero, that many have justly deemed it a romance; yet for all this, Hierocles had the presumption to compare the impostures of A poll on i us with the miracles of Jesus Christ.――A sophist of Alexandria, distinguished for his Lexicon Græcum Iliadis et Ody eæ , a book that was beautifully edited by Villoison, in 4to, 2  vols. , Paris, 1773. A poll on i us was one of the pupils of Didymus, and flourished in the beginning of the first century.――A physician.――A son of Sotades at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus.――Syrus, a Platonic philosopher.――Hero phil us, wrote concerning ointments.――A sculptor of Rhodes.