64] Quinct. x. 1 and 2. De clar. Orat. 75.

[265] Ibid.

[266] Ibid. and ad Atticum, xiv. 1.

[267] Ibid.

[268] Dialog. de Orat. 20 apud Tacit. and 22. Quinct. x. 2.

[269] "It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of
others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their
master."--_Johnson. We have before compared Cicero to Addison as regards
the purpose of inspiring their respective countrymen with literary
taste. They resembled each other in the return they experienced.

[270] Dialog. 18.

[271] Ibid.

[272] Dialog. 19.

[273] Dialog. 18 and 22 Quinct. xii 10.

III.

THE APOLLONIUS OF TYANA

(_From the_ ENCYCLOPAEDIA METROPOLITANA _of 1826._)

APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION.--HIS LIFE WRITTEN BY PHILOSTRATUS, INDIRECTLY
AGAINST CHRISTIANITY 305

1. HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION, PYTHAGOREAN TRAINING, AND TRAVELS 306

2. HIS POLITICAL ASPECT 309

3. HIS REPUTATION 316

4. HIS PROFESSION OF MIRACLES 319

5. NOT BORNE OUT BY THE INTERNAL CHARACTER OF THE ACTS
THEMSELVES 323

6. NOR BY THEIR DRIFT 326

7. BUT AN IMITATION OF SCRIPTURE MIRACLES 328

APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.

Apollonius, the Pythagorean philosopher, was born at Tyana, in
Cappadocia, in the year of Rome 750, four years before the common
Christian era.[274] His reputation rests, not so much on his personal
merits, as on the attempt made in the early ages of the Church, and
since revived,[275] to bring him forward as a rival to the Divine Author
of our Religion. A narrative of his life, which is still extant, was
written with this object, about a century after his death (A.D. 217), by
Philostratus of Lemnos, when Ammonius was systematizing the Eclectic
tenets to meet the increasing influence and the spread of Christianity.
Philostratus engaged in this work at the instance of his patroness Julia
Domna, wife of the Emperor Severus, a princess celebrated for her zeal
in the cause of Heathen Philosophy; who put into his hands a journal of
the travels of Apollonius rudely written by one Damis, an Assyrian, his
companion.[276] This manuscript, an accoun