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A00437	The lyves, of philosophers and oratours: vvritten in Greeke, by Eunapius, of the cittie of Sardeis in Lydia. Brought into light, translated into Latine, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, our moste gracious princesse and soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth. By the great learned man, Hadrianus Iunius Hornanus. 1568. And now set foorth in English, at his request: and dedicated to the right Honourable, the Lord Chauncellour of England. 1579; Vitae sophistarum. English	Eunapius, ca. 345-ca. 420.; Junius, Hadrianus, 1511-1575.	1579 (1579)	STC 10566; ESTC S101779	59,568	112

do well Hath brought to light let at large frō Dūgeon darke and deepe But Iunius a Physition the Philosopher good Hath him translated made appeare to all that list to reade More worthy prayse it is to be a Translatour faithfull Then to make a Paraphrase or to inuent a booke The life of Eunapius chiefly gathered out of his owne writings EVnapius was borne at Sardies the chiefe Cittie of Lydia and from a Childe Scholer of Chrisantbius a Philosopher of Sardeis and a sacred Prelate in Lydia and his kinsman for he had marryed Melita that was Eunapius Cousine by whose perswasion he wrote the liues of certaine Philosophers Oratours professours in Phisick not resisting his Maisters authority He Sailed from Asia to Athens to get learning when he was sixeteene yeeres of age at the which time he saieth he had a curled thick heayre somewhat white by many hoarye heayres appearing with the other resembling the brightnes of Siluer after the manner of the foming Sea. In that passage he was taken with a vehemēt ague gotrē as it should seeme by the tossing of the Sea which in short time did so enfeeble and diminish the strength of the young man that not beeing able to go a foote he was borne by the hands of his Countrimen that came with him in the iorney from Piraeo the Porte of Athens to Proaeresius house whose fame brought him foorth Where the disease encreasing and at length almost in desperation one Aeschines of Chia a man of that sort that prooueth practise by mens death opened the young mans mouthe with certaine yron instruments and put in a medicine by the which the body was well purged and the patient began to amend All the which were more happelye doone then was hoped and not knowne to Proaeresius although the thing being straight knowne and a great fame of his recouerye Proaeresius hearing the young man to be of great hope did prayse him openly in a publike audience and whiles he liued vsed him as his deere Childe and he likewise honoured him as a God with great reuerence for the admiration of his vertue singular learning He entred to the state of man as himselfe sayth when Iulianus was slaine in Parthia and Valens and Valentinian were Emperours The fyft yeare after he came to Athens he would haue gon into Aegipt taking example of Plato and Eudoxus but he was forbidden by his parents and called home to Lydia whether he retourned as I can perceyue against his wyll He was right well learned in Physicke by his owne testimonie in so much as he was chiefe in that order when olde Chrysanthius was let bloude before Oribasius that was moste excellent in Physicke was come being called to it He wrote also a Chronicle in the which he she weth the liues of the Emperours from Heredianes time to his age the which I heere is kept in the Librarie of Ven●se as a monument it appeared he was not much desirous of glorye for he neuer nameth himselfe beyng content to call him selfe the wrighter of this Treatise He was much giuen to the Gentils sect ennemy to the Christians which as a Rat bewraying himselfe he vttereth euery where chieflye when he reprooueth Constantine the Emperour for ouerthrowing the noble Temples of the Gods thorowghout the worlde and erecting howses of Christian men And where he lamenteth that when the Goddes Temples were put downe Monkes were brought into holy places and Martirs and Saints heades as he scoffith beyng salted were shewed and worshipped for Gods. It seemeth he was professed to the secret misteries of the Goddesses Eleusines and of the chiefe Pr●●st of the place whose name he had rather passe in silence then bewraye wickedly admitted to the order of the Eumolpidan●s and that he had the roome of a chiefe Minister whom they call Hierophanta although he were not that Countr●y man contrary to Eumolpus lawe by the which it was forbidden He seemeth to follow not the maner of the speeche of Asia which is superfluouse and ful of words but a pure and as it were a painted kinde which was then peculiar to the sect of Sophistes which do not shadow the thinges but rather expresse them with liuelye colours and so setteth them before the eyes as a man would thinke he saw them presently yet is he brefe and beside he gathered in euery place the learned flowers of Poets and Philosophers and as starres placeth them in his Stile Moreouer as touching the title by the name of Sophistes which was euyll thought of they are to be vnderstanded that were learned in arte especially in Eloquence And can sustaine publike profession with prayse Who now for the most part are honoured with the name of Maisters So as they be Philosophers whom Tacitus calleth teachers and Fabius professours of Sapience And Sophistes readers of liberall artes or otherwise of great name ❧ The liues of excellent Philosophers and worthy Oratours Written in Greeke by Eunapius of Lydia c. XEnophon the onelye Philosopher that expressed the studie of Sapience bothe in words workes did wright moral vertues in bookes and practised manlye vertues in deedes in so much as by his examples he made skylfull leaders of Armies Alexander the great had not beene made great if Xenophon had not affirmed that the byactes of forward men ought to be put to writing My trauell shall not be to wright the light actes of some fingular men but the very worthy actes in deede For if the pastime of vertue must be declared it were amisse to keepe in silence the earnest worke thereof My treatise shall not be to the Reader as an vndoubted matter for of al I cannot be a witnesse nor such a one as shall make a choice of the best Philosophers and Oratours but to attribute to euery one his singuler profession He that is described to be best and chiefe in this declaration shall be perceyued by the reporte that shal be made of him that wyll iudge the same The Wryter meaneth to describe them by exquisite memorialles by the which if he misseth of the trueth eyther he lay the faulte as a good Scholler doth vpō an euyl teacher or reprooue them of error that were deuisers of notable wonders So that his worke may be pure and irreproouable seeing he followed them whom it was fytte to follow And for as much as they be rare and very few that haue writtē of this matter a man may say this only that neyther the things written before shal be hidde from the reader neither that our selues haue hard euen to this present but decent order shal be kept in bothe not altering things before written and establishing by wrighting that we haue harde by turne and chainge of time and so make the thinge firme and stable ❧ Who they be that haue written of Philosophers lyues POrphyrius and Sotion haue wrytten the historie of them tha● were Philosophers in deede But it seemed good to

Lelibaeuin one of the three Forelands of Cicilia towarde Affrica There he lay in paine and passions refusing all meate and forsaking all men The great Plotinus was not deceyued herein but eyther by following his steppes or seeking for him found him out where he was layde and by good words so comforted him as he called againe the life that was going from the body and made it able to retaine the same So as he recouered and was safe and after wrote the talke that was between them But the secretes of Philosophie being hydden as Poetry in Fables Porphyrius finding the remedy to make them manifest with praise of his experience dyd write a Treatise of them and gaue lyght vnto them Then he returned to Rome and renewed his study shewing proofe of it publiquely The glory of Porphyrius redounded to Plorinus by whome both the Senate and the people knew he was enstructed Plotinus seemed harde darke for the diuine and obscure subtiltie of his wordes and workes But Porphyrius as a Cheane of Mercury ful of variety of learning sent amōg men declared euery thing firmly and plainly For he sayth in a place which paradventure he wrote when he was young that he had reuelation of more diuine knowledge then the common sort And in the same booke he wryteth howe a man should apply his diligence vpon such matter He saith further that he droue a deuil out of a Bathe whome the inhabitaunts called Causanthan His chiefe Scholefelowes as himselfe writeth were Origenes Amelius and Aquilinus and that they wrote some Bookes but their style was barren though their precepts were good aptly set forth in words Yet Porphyrius prayseth them for their grauitie he receyuing all the thanks and onely celebrating and setting forth his Maister being endued with al kind of knowledge A man may doubt and maruayle wherin he dyd most excell Whether in the Arte of Rethorike or exact knowledge of the groundes of Grammer in the science of numbring or in Geometry or Musicke For Philosophie neyther left he any thing vnknowen neyther coulde he well expresse what he knew For natural and diuine knowledge I leaue them to Religion and Misteries Such a generall knowledge had he in all manner of vertue that a man may doubt whether the pleasantnes of his Orations or the pithinesse of his precepts or the vehemencie of his speaches deserueth more prayse It seemeth he was maried to Marcella for there is a Booke directed to Marcella his wife whome he sayth he maryed being mother to liue Children not to haue Chyldren by her but to teach her Chyldren which she had by a friend of his It seemeth also he lyued tyll he was olde wherby he left some workes contrary to his former wrytings Of the which I can not iudge the cause but that in tyme he thought otherwyse They say he dyed at Rome at which tyme Paulus and Andromacus of Syria were rectors of Rethorike in Athens And it is very lyke it was about the tyme of Galienus Claudius Tacitus Aurelianus and Probus In whose dayes Dexippus lyued that wrote a story of that tyme a man fulfylled with all learning and good vertues Jamblicus NExt these Iamblicus was the Philosopher of most fame He was of good byrth from wealthy and fortunate Parents His Countrey was Calcide which is a Citie of the hollow part of Syria He was familiar with Anatolius who after Porphyrius was most esteemed and passed him farre and atteyned to the heyght of Philosophy After him he ioygned with Porphyrius to whome he was not inferior but in purity and pyth of style For he dyd not vse his speach with sweetnes delyght nor had any clearenes nor ioyed in neate phrases Yet was he not vtterly obscure nor faulty in his style but as Plato sayth of Xenocrates he dyd not sacrifice to the graces of Mercurie Therfore he doth not deteyne his Auditor nor allure him to reade but rather affray him and turneth him from it For his keeping of Iustice he was so fauord of the Gods as multitudes resorted vnto him from euery place to be partakers of his doctrine of whome who was the best it is harde to tell For there was Sopater of Syria who was most eloquent in worde and wryting Aedesius and Eustathius of Cappadocia Theodorus and Euphrasius of Grecia which excelled in vertue and many other not much inferiour in eloquence It is a wonder how he could please all He was sree to euery of them He dyd lytle for him selfe without his Disciples and fellowes and that for a respect to god He accompanied much with his friendes His dyet was symple and alter the olde manner He cheered his guests and fylled them with his sweete talkes They that were not wery nor full of his discourses were his common guests They that durst best speake would come foorth and saye O most diuine Maister why art thou so alone Why doest thou not imparte thy rare Sapience to vs A talke is tolde vs by thy seruaunts that when thou art at thy prayers thou art taken vp ten cubytes hygh and that thy body and garment is turned into colour of fayre golde And when thy prayers are done thy body returneth to his old estate as it was before thou dyddest pray and commeth to the groūd againe and than thou l●ttest vs haue thy company At these wordes Iamblicus laugh●d not being very prone to laughter and sayd He was no foole that hath deceyued you thus But from henceforth I wyl do nothing without you Thus he shewed himselfe and it came to the wryters knowledge by Chrysanthius his Scholemaister that was of Sardis and he was very samiliar Scholler with Aedesius and Aedesius one of the chefe with Iamblicus and of them that vsed the aboue written wordes to him Furthermore he shewed great demonstration of his diuine knowledge after this sorte The Sunne dyd shew vpon the extreme partes of the Orizon when he entreth into the sygne of the Dogge at which tyme a Sacrifice was woont to be made in one of the Suburbs And when all was well fynished they returned into the Cittie going leysurely for they had a talke of God agreeing with the Sacrifice Than the voyce fayled and he fyxing his eyes on the ground for a tyme looked vpon his friends and cryed to them Let vs go another way for a dead body is caryed not farre of When he had thus sayde he tooke another way as he thought more pure Some followed him thynking it a shame to leaue their Maister But the more part and youthfull sort among whome was Aedesius thought it a superstitious poynt and lyke Houndes that hunted after their game went on their way They had not gone farre but they met with the buriers of the dead Corps dyd not leaue it so but asked them if they went that way they sayde they must needes for there was none other This dyd the

Garlande on his head but looking onely against the Sunne hee vttred true Oracles and conformable to that kinde that commeth from a pure diuination Yet he knew no verse nor was sufficiently learned in Grammer So God wrought all thinges in him Neuerthelesse at the determined ende of his lyfe he dyed at the twentie yeare of his age Than his father declared himselfe to be a Philosopher For eyther the rauishment of his sences made him voyde of affections or the patience of his minde made him beare the losse of his sonne And the mother hauing regarde to her husbande passed the nature of a woman refrayning from all lamentation though the passion were most grieuous After these matters Chrysanthius returned to his studies And many great publique causes chauncing that droue mennes mindes to feare he onely remayned without trouble that it might seeme he was not of the earth At this time Hellespontius came to him but seldome entred disputation But when they were at it Hellespontius was so rapte as he lest all to abyde with Chrysanthius and learned lyke a young man and repented he had lost so much tyme and was so olde before he had tasted of so healthfull doctrine So wholly dyd he geue his minde to him Chrysanthius would be let blood as he was woont when this wryter was present as he commaunded When the Phisitians agreed that he shoulde stryke a vaine he attended to see it done accordingly And affyrmed that it was rashly and vnaduisedly done to take so much blood and commaunded him to be stopped For this wryter was not ignoraunt of Phisicke Hellespontius hearing of it came in great anger and chyding as in a great offence that so much blood shoulde be taken from so olde a man But when he sawe him safe and heard him speake he turned to this wryter saying The Cittie accused you of a great fault but now they wyll be styll when they see the olde man safe and voyde of daunger This man comming after to Chrysanthius in a publique cause fell sicke by the way of a flyxe and at Apamea in Bythinia dyed Commaunding his fellowe Procopius onelye to honour Chrysanthius Which thing Procopius tolde when he was come to Sardis Chrysanthius in the sommer the yeare following vsed the same Phisicke And where this wryter wylled the Phisitians that they shoulde tarry for him as the maner was because he was President Yet they preuented him and let him blood and whylest he bled he put his hand to his chyn and a sodaine weaknes followed with a shrynking of the synewes Oribasius was called forthwith for his conning And he with noriture and hotte things restored strength againe and made him in good case But age preuayled which the next yeare dispatched him naturall heate being extinct by the much vse of fomentations And so being sicke he dyed after the common course of man. Epigonus and Beronitianus EPigonus of Lacedemonia and Beronitianus of Sardis succeeded him in teaching Men worthy the name of Philosophy Beronitianus was more full of sweete grace and fytte to lyue with the multitude And so I pray God he may Plato Pindarus borne at Thebes the which Cittie was spared of the Lacedemonians and his ofspring of Alexander for his vertues sake Diotimus Iustinianus King Anius bothe a Prince of ● Countrey ● a Priest of Apollo ●hilippe of Macedon●e Chrysanth●● Agis King of Lacedemonia after his noble actes was kylled in Prison because he would haue renued Lycurgus his Lawes ▪ Xenophon in Philosophy contented with Plato and in armes might compare with the best Captaines The worde is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth Superuacanea perfunctoria thinges ouerly and lightly done which be called by-matter Porphyrius w●● at Rome in Aurelianus time and Scholefellow with Origines a vehement aduersary of Christ Socion was of Aristotcles scet And wrote the booke intituled Cornu Copi● ●ull of varyety of learning as Aulus Gellius sheweth Ammonius of Origenes and Porphyrius tyme. Plutarche in Traia●es tyme in Rome and in Iulianus tyme at Athens Dio● clad in a Lyons skinne and great with Traiane Apolonius had so great knowledge as being at Ephesus told the very instant that Domitian was slaine Philostratus was at Rome in Scuerus tyme. Carneades ▪ Cy●ykes ▪ of their behauiour like Dogges Lucianus ▪ Demon●ctes a despiser of the world in Adrianes tym● he lyued one hūdred yeeres Plato Claudius Nero. Galba Vitelius Otho Vespasian Titus Seuerus Plotinus In Probus and Tacitus tyme subiect to the falling sicknesse Plotinus an interpretor of Plato and Marsilius Ficinus of him in 54 books with Coments vpon 18. of them Tyros Porphyrius an interpretor of Plato in Aurelianus tyme an extreme aduersarye to the Christians Longinus Cassius Dionisius Malcus Longinus Lelibaeuin Plotinus recouereth Porphyrius Philosophy by Oracles Causanthan Origenes Amelius Aquilinus Paulus Andromacus Dexippus Iamblicus in Constantinus Magnus tyme. He aunswered maruelously to many harde questions of Porphyrius Anattolius X. Sopater Eustathius ●up●rasius Chrysanthius Schoolemaister to 〈◊〉 Gadara Baia. 〈◊〉 Anteros Alypius Death of Alipius and Iamblicus Aedesius A woman also of this name of rare vertue and chastitie Sopater Cercopes crafty men Aristophanes The death of Socrates cause of calamitie to Gretia Byzance Constantinople populous Sopater iudged to dye Ablabius A Mydwyfe Ablabius looking styll for honour is kylled Oracle shewed to Aedesi●● Eustathius Lotos a Tree whose sweet fruite maketh men forget theyr Countrey Antioche besieged of the Persians Sapores King of Persia Sosipatr● an excellent learned woman Cayster a flood ful of Swannes in Lydia The diuination of Sosepatra to her Father Odyss 17. Diuination of Sosipatra Sosipatra marryed to Eustathius Sosipatra returneth to Pergamo Philometer in loue with Sosipatra Maximus Death of Sosipatra Canobus Morning influence of Hesiodus He seemeth ●o 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 Antonirus sonne to Sosipatra Alexandria Theodosius Theophilus Odyss 7. Claudianus Nymphidianus Maximus Schoolemaister to Iulianus Docilitie of Iuli●n the Emperour Chrysanthius Priscus Eusebius Stynginge of the Serpent Dypsas breadeth thyrst vn●uench●l●e Hecates was honored with Sacrifice of 100. The Goddesses were Ceres and Proserpina ●umolpidaes ● kinde of Priest● bearing name of their king Eumolpus These Ceremonyes were called Mithriaaes of Mithra whome the Persians calleth Apollo Alarichus Kyng of Gothes Iulianus Apostata Oribasius Euemerius Iiad ● Maximu● insolent Melyta wyfe of Chrysanthius Iliad 9. Iouinianus raigned onlye eyght monthes Valentinianus Valens Emperours Priscus escapeth Maximus ●ormented The punishment of th●● boates 〈◊〉 to teare a man a pee●ces betwee● two boates it is called Scaphismus Maximus his wyfe dyeth of a drynke that he wylled her to buye to dispatch him selfe Clearchus Thesprotis Procopius Tyranne of Constantinople Salutius Nicias Tmolus 〈◊〉 an hyl 〈◊〉 a flood i●● Lydia Exonius Valens w●s burned in a house Cruell Festus executeth Maximus Valens dyeth myserably Festus Theodosius Wycked Festus dieth sodenly Priscus poeuish They were called Corybants that ran about lyke mad men Proterius of Cephalenia