[162] _De sanit. præc._ 16, p. 131. [163] _V. S._ 2. 5. 3. [164] _Pseudolog._ 5 sqq. [165] _Orat._ viii. vol. i. 145. [166] Epict. _Diss._ 3. 23. 35, ἐν κομψῷ στολίῳ ἢ τριβωνίῳ ἀναβάντα ἐπὶ πούλβινον: but Pliny, _Epist._ 2. 3. 2, says of Isæus, “surgit, _amicitur_, incipit,” as though he robed himself in the presence of the audience. [167] Pliny, _Epist._ 2. 3, says of Isæus: “præfationes tersæ, graciles, dulces: graves interdum et erectæ. Poscit controversias plures, electionem auditoribus permittit, sæpe etiam partes.” Philostratus, _V.S._ 1. 24. 4, tells a story of Mark of Byzantium going into Polemo’s lecture-room and sitting down among the audience: some one recognized him, and the whisper went round who he was, so that, when Polemo asked for a subject, all eyes were turned to Mark. “What is the use of looking at a rustic like that?” said Polemo, referring to Mark’s shaggy beard; “_he_ will not give you a subject.” “I will both give you a subject,” said Mark, “and will discourse myself.” Plutarch, _de audiendo_, 7, p. 42, advises those who go to a “feast of words” to propose a subject that will be useful, and not to ask for a discourse on the bisection of unlimited lines. [168] Plin. _Epist._ 2. 3. 4; cf. Philostr. _V.S._ 1. 20. 2. His disciple Dionysius of Miletus had so wonderful a memory, and so taught his pupils to remember, as to be suspected of sorcery: Philostr. _V.S._ 1. 22. 3. [169] _Rhet. præc._ 18. [170] _V.S._ 2. 26. 3. [171] _Orat._ xxxiii. vol. i. p. 422. [172] Epict. _Diss._ 3. 23. 24. [173] Plut. _de audiendo_, 15, p. 46, speaks of the strange and extravagant words which had thus come into use, ‘θείως’ καὶ ‘θεοφορήτως’ καὶ ‘ἀπροσίτως,’ the old words, τοῦ ‘καλῶς’ καὶ τοῦ ‘σοφῶς’ καὶ τοῦ ‘ἀληθῶς,’ being no longer strong enough. [174] _Rhet. præc._ 21. [175] _De audiendo_, 4, p. 39. [176] _Diss._ 3. 23. 11. [177] _Diss._ 3. 23. 19. [178] ἐτυράννει γε τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, says Eunapius of the sophist Julian, _Vit. Julian_, p. 68. [179] Philostr. _V. S._ 1. 21. 6, of Scopelianus, βασίλειοι δὲ αὐτοῦ πρεσβεῖαι πολλαὶ μέν, καὶ γάρ τις καὶ ἀγαθὴ τύχη ξυνηκολούθει πρεσβεύοντι: _ib._ 1. 24, 2, of Mark of Byzantium: 1. 25. 1, 5, of Polemo: 2. 5. 2, of Alexander Peloplaton. [180] Philostr. _V. S._ 1. 22, of Dionysius of Miletus, Ἀδριανὸς σατράπην μὲν αὐτὸν ἀπέφηνεν οὐκ ἀφανῶν ἐθνῶν ἐγκατέλεξε δὲ τοῖς δημοσίᾳ ἱππεύουσι καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῷ Μουσείῳ σιτουμένοις: so of Polemo, _ib._ 1. 25. 3. [181] The inscription of one of the statues which are mentioned by Philostratus, _V. S._ 1. 23, 2, as having been erected to Lollianus at Athens, was found a few years ago near the Propylæa: Dittenberger, C. I. A. vol. iii. No. 625: see also Welcker, _Rhein. Mus._ N. F. i. 210, and a monograph by Kayser, _P. Hordeonius Lollianus_, Heidelberg, 1841. It is followed by the epigram: