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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Alciphron (search)
Alciphron （*)Alki/frwn), a Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Respecting his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatever. Some of the earlier critics, as La Croze and J. C. Wolf, placed him, without any plausible reason, in the fifth century of our aera. Bergler, and others who followed him, placed Alciphron in the period between Lucian and Aristaenetus, that is, between A. D. 170 and 350, while others again assign to him a date even earlier than the time of Lucian. The only circumstance that suggests anything respecting his age is the fact, that among the letters of Aristaenetus there are two (1. 5 and 22) between Lucian and Alciphron; now as Aristaenetus is nowhere guilty of any great historical inaccuracy, we may safely infer that Alciphron was a contemporary of Lucian--an inference which is not incompatible with the opinion, whether true or false, that Alciphron imitated Lucian. Works Letters We possess under
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Apollina'ris (search)
Apollina'ris 1. Claudius Apollinaris, bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia (A. D. 170 and onwards), wrote an " Apology for the Christian faith" (lo/goi u(pe\r th=s pi/stews a)pologi/as) to the emperor M. Antoninus. He also wrote against the Jews and the Gentiles, and against the heresies of the Montanists and the Eneratites, and some other works, all of which are lost. (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 4.27, 5.19 ; Hieron. de Vir. Illust. 26, Epist. 84; Nicephorus, 4.11; Photius, Phot. Bibl. 14; Theodoret. de Haeret. Fab. 3.2; Chronicon Paschale.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Clarus (search)
Clarus 4. C. Erucius Clarus, consul in A. D. 170, with M. Cornelius Cethegus (Fast.), was probably the son of No. 3, and the same as the Praefectus Vigilum mentioned in the Digest. (1. tit. 15. s. 3.2.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
poisoned by them. (De Praenot. ad Epig. 100.4. vol. xiv. p. 623, &c.) A full account of his first visit to Rome * Some persons think that Galen's first visit to Rome took place A. D. 161-2, and that therefore he was there twice before his visit A. D. 170; but Galen himself never speaks of this as his third visit, and the writer is inclined to think that all the passages in his works that seem to imply that he was at Rome A. D. 161-2, may be easily reconciled with the other hypothesis., and of sRome, he committed to the medical care of Galen his son L. Aurelius Commodus, who was then nine years of age, and who afterwards succeeded his father as emperor. (De Libr. Propr. and De Praenot. ad Epig. 1. c.) It was probably in the same year, A. D. 170, that Galen, on the death of Demetrius, was commissioned by M. Aurelius to prepare for him the celebrated compound medicine called Theriaca, of which the emperor was accustomed to take a small quantity daily (De Antid. 1.1. vol. xiv. p. 3, &c.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Lucianus (search)
ermotimus, which he mentions having written about forty (§ 13), the Nigrinus, &c. This brings us again to the year 120, as a very probable one in which to fix his birth; and thus he might have been contemporary as a boy with Epictetus, then in his old age; and with the man who bought his lamp, some 30 or 35 years, perhaps, before 165. A passage which alludes to later political events occurs in the Alexander, 48, where mention is made of the war of Marcus Antoninus against the Marcomtanni, A. D. 170-175; and as Marcus is there called *qeo/s, Voss inferred that the piece was written after the death of that emperor in 180. According to the computation of Reitz, which is that above given, Lucian would then have been more than sixty years old. From § 56, it appears that Lucian's father was still alive when he visited Alexander; but the visit might have taken place at least ten years before the account of it was written. (Clinton, Fasti Rom. A. D. 182.) That Lucian himself was a man of som
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Me'lito (search)
his book on the subject (Clem. Alexandr. apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 4.26). This controversy arose when Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, and at the time of the martyrdom of Sagaris, who is thought to have suffered in the persecution under M. Aurelius. During the same persecution, Melito composed his Apologia,which, as it was addressed to Aurelius alone, appears to have been written after the death of Lucius Verus, in A. D. 169. The Chronicon of Eusebius places its presentation in A. D. 169-170 : it must have been written then or between those years and A. D. 180, in which Aurelius himself died [AURELIUS MARCUS]. The Chronicon Paschale seems to ascribe to Melito two apologies, one presented to Aurelius and Verus, A. D. 165, the other to Aurelius alone, A. D. 169. Tillemont is disposed to place the Apology as late as the year 175; Pearson and Dodwell between 170 and 175; and Basnage (Annales Politic. Eccles.) and Lardner as late as A. D. 177. The time, place, and manner of Melito's d
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Minucia'nus (search)
Minucia'nus （*Minoukiano/s). 1. A Greek rhetorician, was a contemporary of the celebrated rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus (fl. A. D. 170), with whom he was at variance. This we learn from the Scholiast on Hermogenes, and thus the difficulty which Fabricius experienced (Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 107). is removed, as it is evident that this Minucianus was a different person from the one following. (Schol. ad Hermog. pp. 26, 48, 49, 71, 77, 99, 177, 179, 180, 181, 200, 287; comp. Schol. ad Aphthon. p. 226, Spengel; Westermann, Gesichichte der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 95, n. 1
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Verus, A'nnius the son of the emperor M. Aurelius and Faustina, was born A. D. 163, two years after Commodus and his twin brother Antoninus Geminus. Antoninus died A. D. 165, and the two surviving princes, Verus and Commodus, were raised to the rank of Caesares, in October, A. D. 166, at the request of L. Aurelius Verus on his return from the East in that year. Annius Verus did not enjoy his dignity long, for he died at Praeneste, A. D. 170, in the seventh year of his age, in consequence of the excision of a tumour under his ear, when his father was on the point of setting out on his expedition against the Marcomanni. The annexed coin has on the obverse the head of Annius Verus with ANNIVS VERVS CAES. ANTONINI AVG. FIL., and on the reverse, the head of Commodus, with COMMODVS CAES. ANTONINI AVG. FIL. (Capitol. Antonin. Phil. 12, 21 ; Lamprid. Commod. 1, 11; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 82, foll.)