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118 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
ssages will afford some clue to his chronology. In the *Pro\s a)pai/deuton, § 13, he tells us that there existed in his time, and was probably still alive, a man who had bought the lamp of Epictetus for 3000 drachms, in the hope of inheriting his wisdom. As this purchase was probably made shortly after the death of Epictetus, the natural inference is, that Lucian was alive in the time of that philosopher (hardly that Epictetus died before the time of Lucian, as Mr. Clinton says, Fasti Rom. A. D. 118). The uncertainty expressed as to whether the purchaser was still alive denotes that a considerable period had elapsed between the transaction recorded and the date of the *Pro\s a)pai/deuton. But that piece can be shown to have been written shortly after the extraordinary suicide of Peregrinus, A. D. 165; for in § 14 Lucian mentions another silly fellow who had just recently purchased (*Xqe\s kai\ prw/hn) the stick of the fanatical cynic for a talent. Now Epictetus could hardly have survi
175 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
us, 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 some conse
160 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
o his native country. It was, however, at this period that he produced the works to which he owes his reputation, and which principally consist of attacks upon the religion and philosophy of the age. The bulkiness of them suggests the inference that many years were spent in these quiet literary occupations, though not undiversified with occasional travel; since it appears from the *Pw=s dei= i(st. sug., § 14, that he must have been in Achaia and lolnia about the close of the Parthian war, A. D. 160-165; on which occasion, too, he seems to have visited Olympia, and beheld the self-immolation of Peregrinus. We have already seen that about the year 170, or a little previously, he must have visited the false oracle of the impostor Alexander, in Paphlagonia. Here Lucian planned several contrivances for detecting the falsehood of his responses and in a personal interview with the prophet, instead of kissing his hand, as was the custom, inflicted a severe bite upon his thumb. For these and
138 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
whether the purchaser was still alive denotes that a considerable period had elapsed between the transaction recorded and the date of the *Pro\s a)pai/deuton. But that piece can be shown to have been written shortly after the extraordinary suicide of Peregrinus, A. D. 165; for in § 14 Lucian mentions another silly fellow who had just recently purchased (*Xqe\s kai\ prw/hn) the stick of the fanatical cynic for a talent. Now Epictetus could hardly have survived the reign of Hadrian, who died A. D. 138 (EPICTETUS, and Clinton, l. C.), and it is more likely that he did not reach the middle of it. On these grounds we might at a venture place Lucian's birth about the year 120; and this date tallies pretty well with other inferences from his writings. The *Pw=s dei= i(stori/an suggra/fein must have been nearly contemporary with the *Pro\ a)pai/deuton, since it alludes to the Parthian victories of Verus (Clinton, A. D. 166), but was probably written before the final triumph, as from an expres
170 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
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
166 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
ow Epictetus could hardly have survived the reign of Hadrian, who died A. D. 138 (EPICTETUS, and Clinton, l. C.), and it is more likely that he did not reach the middle of it. On these grounds we might at a venture place Lucian's birth about the year 120; and this date tallies pretty well with other inferences from his writings. The *Pw=s dei= i(stori/an suggra/fein must have been nearly contemporary with the *Pro\ a)pai/deuton, since it alludes to the Parthian victories of Verus (Clinton, A. D. 166), but was probably written before the final triumph, as from an expression in § 2 (ta\ e)n posi\ tau=ta keki/nhtai) the war would seem to have been still going on. These pieces, together with the account of the death of Peregrinus (*Peri\ th=s *Peregi/nou teleuth=s), which has all the air of a narrative composed immediately after the event it records, are the earliest works of Lucian which we can connect with any public transactions. But he tells us that he did not abandon the rhetorical p
165 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
saction recorded and the date of the *Pro\s a)pai/deuton. But that piece can be shown to have been written shortly after the extraordinary suicide of Peregrinus, A. D. 165; for in § 14 Lucian mentions another silly fellow who had just recently purchased (*Xqe\s kai\ prw/hn) the stick of the fanatical cynic for a talent. Now Epictetccasional travel; since it appears from the *Pw=s dei= i(st. sug., § 14, that he must have been in Achaia and lolnia about the close of the Parthian war, A. D. 160-165; on which occasion, too, he seems to have visited Olympia, and beheld the self-immolation of Peregrinus. We have already seen that about the year 170, or a little pda-fé of Peregrinus Proteus, a fanatical cynic and apostate Christian, who publicly burnt himself from an impulse of vain-glory shortly after the 236th Olympiad (A. D. 165), and concerning whom further particulars will be found elsewhere. [PEREGRINUs.] Lucian seems to have belleld this singular triumph of fanaticism with a sort of
182 AD (search for this): entry lucianus-bio-9
cus 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 some consequence at the time of it appears from the intimate terms he was on with Rutilianus, § 54, and from the governor of Cappadocia having given him a guard of two soldiers (§ 55). This is another argument for the visit having taken place when Lucian was well advanced in life, probably about fifty; for his youth was spent in struggling with adverse fortune. In the *)Apologi/a peri\ tw=n e)pi\ misqw=| suno/ntwn, § 1, he mentions having obtained an appo