[29] There is an interesting instance, at a rather later time, of the poverty of two students, one of whom afterwards became famous, Prohæresius and Hephæstion: they had only one ragged gown between them, so that while one went to lecture, the other had to stay at home in bed (Eunap. _Prohæres._ p. 78). [30] _Diss._ 1. 9. 19. [31] _Ib._ 2, 21. 12; 3. 24. 54. [32] _Ib._ 2. 21. 12, 13, 15; 3. 24. 22, 24. [33] _Ib._ 3. 16. 14, 15. [34] _Ib._ 1. 26. 9. [35] _De audiendo_, 13, vol. ii. p. 45. The passage is abridged above. [36] _Quis rer. div. heres._ 3, vol. i. p. 474. [37] For example, Verrius Flaccus, the father of the system of “prize essays,” who received an annual salary of 100,000 sesterces from Augustus (Suet. _de illustr. Gramm._ 17). The inscriptions of Asia Minor furnish several instances of teachers who had left their homes to teach in other provinces of the Empire, and had returned rich enough to make presents to their native cities. [38] The evidence for the above paragraph, with ample accounts of additional facts relative to the same subject, but unnecessary for the present purpose, will be found in F. H. L. Ahrens, _de Athenarum statu politico et literario inde ab Achaici fœderis interitu usque ad Antoninorum tempora_, Göttingen, 1829; K. O. Müller, _Quam curam respublica apud Græcos et Romanos literis doctrinisque colendis et promovendis impenderit_, Göttingen (Programm zur Säcularfeier), 1837; P. Seidel, _de scholarum quæ florente Romanorum imperio Athenis exstiterunt conditione_, Glogau, 1838; C. G. Zumpt, _Ueber den Bestand der philosophischen Schulen in Athen und die Succession der Scholarchen_, Berlin (Abhandl. der Akademie der Wissenschaften), 1843; L. Weber, _Commentatio de academia literaria Atheniensium_, Marburg, 1858. There is an interesting Roman inscription of the end of the second century A.D. which almost seems to show that the endowments were sometimes diverted for the benefit of others besides philosophers: it is to an _athlete_, who was at once “canon of Serapis,” and entitled to free commons at the museum, νεωκόρον τοῦ μεγά[λου Σαράπιδ]ος καὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ [σειτου]μένων ἀτελῶν φιλοσόφων, _Corpus Inscr. Græc._ 5914.