Phĭlostrătus

, a famous sophist born at Lemnos, or, according to some, at Athens. He came to Rome, where he lived under the patronage of Julia the wife of the emperor Severus, and he was entrusted by the empre with all the papers which contained some account or anecdotes of A poll on i us Thyanæus, and he was ordered to review them, and with them to compile a history. The life of A poll on i us is written with elegance, but the improbable accounts, the fabulous stories, and the exaggerated details which it gives, render it disgusting. There is, besides, another treatise remaining of his writings, . He died A.D. 244. The best edition of his writings is that of Olearius, folio, Lipscomb, 1709.――His nephew, who lived in the reign of Helio gab alus, wrote an account of sophists.――A philosopher in the reign of Nero.――Another in the age of August us.