CHAPTER 22. _Crates._ See Florida 14 for some account of him. The rest of the poem on his wallet is preserved by Diog. Laert. vi. 5. 1, but is scarcely worth quoting. _Antisthenes_, the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, flourished circa 366 B.C. He was the teacher of Diogenes. CHAPTER 24. _Lollianus Avitus._ See note on Claudius Maximus, chap. 1. _Anacharsis_, a Scythian prince who travelled far in search of knowledge. He came to Athens in the time of Solon and created a great impression by his wisdom. _Meletides_ (or more properly Melitides) was an Athenian of proverbial stupidity, whose name was synonymous for blockhead. Eustathius on Odyss. x. 552, says that he could not count above five or distinguish between his father and mother! _Syphax_, king of the Massaesyli in W. Numidia, fought for the Carthaginians during the second Punic war, and was finally defeated and captured by Scipio in 203 B.C. After his fall _Masinissa_, King of the Massyli, was left supreme in Numidia. _duumvir._ The chief magistrates in a _colonia_ were styled _duumviri iure dicundo_. _the dignity of my position._ This is generally interpreted as meaning that Apuleius himself had become _duumvir_. It is more likely, considering his age and his continued absences from Madaura, that it means merely the position acquired for him by his father's distinguished office. CHAPTER 25. _Magician is the Persian word for priest._ 'The name _magi_ applied to all workers of miracles, strictly designates the priests of Mazdeism, and well-attested tradition made certain Persians the inventors of genuine magic, the magic which the Middle Ages styled the black art. If they did not invent it, for it is as old as humanity, they were at least the first to give magic a doctrinal basis and to assign it a place in a well-defined theological system.... By the Alexandrian period, books attributed to Zoroaster, Hostanes, and Hystaspes were translated into Greek.' Cumont, Les Religions Orientales dans le Paganisme Romain, p. 227. Cp. Pliny, N.H. xxx. 7. _Plato_, Alcibiades i. 121 E. _Zoroaster, son of Oromazes_, the founder of the ancient religion of Persia (Mazdeism).