ἀμφότερον ῥητῆρα δικῶν μελέτησί τ’ ἄριστον Λολλιανὸν πληθὺς εὐγενέων ἑτάρων. εἰ δ’ ἐθέλεις τίνες εἰσὶ δαήμεναι οὔνομα πατρὸς καὶ πάτρης, αὐτῶν τ’ οὔνομα δίσκος ἔχει. Philostratus, _V. S._ 1. 25. 26, discredits the story that Polemo died at Smyrna, because there was no monument to him there; whereas if he had died there, “not one of the wonderful temples of that city would have been thought too great for his burial.” [182] ἡ βασιλεύουσα Ῥωμὴ τὸν βασιλεύοντα τῶν λόγων, Eunap. _Vit. Prohæres._ p. 90. [183] Μόδεστος σοφιστὴς εἷς μετὰ τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν μὴ γεμίσας εἰκοσι πέντε ἔτη, _Bulletin de correspondence Hellénique_, 1886. p. 157. [184] ὅσ πάντα λόγοις ὑποτάσσει, _Mittheilungen des deutsches archæol. Institut_, 1884, p. 61. [185] Philostratus, _V. S._ 1. 25. 3, p. 228, narrates the incident with graphic humour, and adds two anecdotes which show that the Emperor was rather amused than annoyed by it. It was said of the same sophist that “he used to talk to cities as a superior, to kings as not inferior, and to gods as an equal,” _ibid._ 4. [186] Dio Cassius, 71. 35. 2, παμπληθεῖς φιλοσοφεῖν ἐπλάττοντο ἵν’ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ πλουτίζωνται. [187] For example, the father of Herodes Atticus gave Scopelianus a fee of twenty-five talents, to which Atticus himself added another twenty-five: Philostr. _V. S._ 1. 21. 7, p. 222. [188] Dio Chrysost. _Orat._ xxxii. p. 403: so Seneca, _Epist._ 29, says of them, “philosophiam honestius neglexissent quam vendunt:” Maximus of Tyre, _Diss._ 33. 8, ἀγορὰ πρόκειται ἀρετῆς, ὤνιον τὸ πρᾶγμα. [189] _Orat._ xxiii. p. 351. The whole speech is a plea against the disrepute into which the profession had fallen. [190] _ap._ Aul. Gell. 5. 1. 1. [191] _De audiendo_, 12, p. 43.