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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

the grounde these fyue yeares by the course of the Sunne For of it selfe ryches shall growe of this grounde and encrease And thy Daughter shall not be as an humaine woman but thou shalt conceyue a greater opinion of her Therfore if thou hast good wyll receyue with both hands that we haue offred But if thou hast any suspition we haue sayd nothing The Father in feare sylence delyuered his daughter to them and calling his Farmor sayde Whatsoeuer these olde men require let them haue it and medle no further When he had thus sayd he departed before day as forsaking both his house and his Daughter They receyuing the chylde whether they were wyse men or Spyrites of rare diuine kinde with what mysteries they brought vp the young Mayde no man can tell and it is in certaine though the search be great with what diuination they inspyred the Chylde The tyme appoynted was come and euery thing prooued of the ground as was spoken The Father was come and knew not his Daughter Neyther for the growth of her person nor for the encrease of her beautie And she knewe not her Father he saluting her so reuerently as though he had saluted a Straunger When the Teachers were come and the table couered they sayde Aske the Virgin what you wyll Aske O Father what hath chaunced all your iourney He geuing her leaue to speake she tolde him all the happes that he had had in his Chariot the woordes the rebukes the feares as though she had bene in Chariot with them and brought her Father into such a wonder as at the fyrst he was in a maze more then in a maruayle and beleeued the Mayde to be a Goddesse Then kneeling to the men prayed them to tell who they were They hardly and at length for so it might be Goddes pleasure sayde They were of the Sapience called Caldaicall not prophane And not without some misterie looked downe Then he kneeled againe and prayed them to be Lordes of the ground and to keepe his Chylde with them to instruct her further in diuinity They nodded that so they would doo saying nothing And he as hauing a promise and an Oracle had good comfort in himselfe yet knew not the secretes and with him selfe praysed Homer that hath shewed of such diuine deedes that cannot be vnderstanded for the straunge and diuine matter The Goddes be turned to diuers shapes as please them nowe and then When Cities they wyll cause to seeme a race of new founde men For he thought that Goddes woulde be turned to straunge men And being rauished with the thing he fel a sleepe They going from Supper and taking the Child with them deliuered vnto her very gently the Robe wherwith she was inuested with knowledge to the which they added diuerse other ornamēts They wylled her to locke the Casket wherin all these things were put gaue her certaine bookes besyde She honoured them no lesse then her Father Day being come and the doores opened and men gone to their worke they also went out as they were woont The Chyld ranne to her father carying her Casket and good newes He hauing learned of his seruaunts what increase he had and what was to be done called for the men But they were gone and no more seene Then he sayde to Sosipatra what meaneth this O Daughter She staying a whyle sayd Now I remember what they sayd at their delyuering of me these things weeping Looke daughter for we must go to the west Oceane and shortly returne againe The which doth manifestly declare that they be Spirits And whether soeuer they be gone thus they went from me The father esteeming his chyld to be sacred with diuine modesty suffred her to lyue as she would not much moued with her but for her sylence When she was come to rype yeares she had without booke the bookes of Poets hauing none other Teachers of Philosophers and Oratours And that which others can hardly get with labour and trauayle of minde she without study did expresse with pleasure Mynding to marry she thought Eustathius only fyt for her Therfore thus she spake to Eustathius and them that were present Heare me Eustathius and be you wytnesse that be here I shall haue three Chyldren by thee and as touching the world they shal be all infortunate Against God no man can be Thou shalt haue before me a fayre and a worthy seate And I peraduenture shall haue a fayrer Thyne shal be about the Moone Thou shalt not teach nor play the Philosopher fully fiue yeares for so thy Phisnognomy telleth me But vnder the Moone thou shalt haue place with good and quiet motion I would say somewhat of my selfe but that I see the tyme would be to short for my speech and my destiny doth forbyd me When she had thus spoken fate so forcing she was ioygned to Eustathius The successe dyd differ nothing from her wordes so certaine was her diuination as all had bene done before This is to be added to the other things that after the death of Eustathius she came to her owne in Asia and remayned at old Pergamo Aedesius for good wyll taught her chyldren Philosophy albeit she had instructed them in her owne house And after Aedesius resorted to her no man esteemed his learning so as they dyd but euery man honoured the diuine knowledge of the woman Philometer her Nephew being ouercome with her beuty and also with her learning fell in loue with her Her rare gysts so surprised him that he could do nothing for that Likewise she was in loue with him Wherfore she went to Maximus who was most familyar with Aedesius and of his kyndred Maximus sayd she take order for my griefe that I be not molested He asked what the matter was She answered What if it be Philometer Then it is he in deede who differeth not from any of you Yet when I see him depart my hart burneth turneth at his departure Therfore deale friendly with me and tell me what is best for me Maximus was not a lytle proude as being spoken to from a Goddesse that such a one should committe such a matter to him Philometer continued in his purpose Maximus sought out the matter by Sacrifice and tooke great paines in a trifling cause When he had done he went to Sosipatra and asked her if she were styll troubled She sayde no And tolde his inuocation his Sacrifice and all the doing and tyme as if she had bene present at the appearing of all the visions Then he fell to the ground astonished and sayde she was a Goddesse Arise Sonne sayd she for the Gods loue thee because thou honourest them and doest not esteeme the worldly and vaine ryches When he heard this he went forth with great opinion of him selfe that he had the praise of so diuine a person Philometer with his companions gladsome met him at the gate Maximus a far off spake to him O friende

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

came to good passe Proaeresius was in greate credyte and his vertue in floryshing estate All wyse men loued him and they that went to him attayned to knowledge At this tyme the Emperours Courte brought foorth a man that loued both eloquence and glorye He was of y City of Beritos his name was Anatolius whom his euil willers surnamed Azutriona What this name doth sygnify let the madde company of stage players tell This Anatolius obtayned both eloquence and glory and came to perfite knowledge of the law which his countrey Berytos vsed being a mother of that study He sayled to Rome and for his pythy wisdom and eloquence was called to Courts and in short tyme came to great power He had all Princely offices geuen him with such estimation as his very enimies wondred at him and in tyme was made great Maister of the court This is a Princely office without Purple Fortune folowing his ambition he was made Lieftenant of Illyria And where he was very superstitious geuen to Greeke facions albeit study of publique state drew him from it he appointed to go to the chiefe places of the Empyre and visyte all euen as he would Being mooued with a feruent desyre to see Grecia and the Images of the Oratours with his owne eyes he made great haste into Grecia and came thyther with much authority Where he propounded a question to the Oratours wylling euery one to say his minde of it Grecia maruayling at his wisdome learning and indyfferency Hee commaunded them to speake of this question they dayly sought to be guile one another But when there was no remedy they determyned the state of the matter as they call it vpon the which was such a contention as the wryter hereof neuer heard a more foolysh thing They were deuided by difference in opinion euery man being bent to please his audience and prayse his eloquence And after the comming of Anatolius more fearefull then the army of Xerxes and the peryll redounding not to the Greacians but to the studients all other among whome was Himerius of Bythinia an Oratour tooke great paines to exercise their wyttes in the state of this matter This Himerius was not knowne to the wryter but by his Bookes Proaeresius trusting to his witte and knowledge was straunge among them and tolde no man his opinion When Anatolius had done his Ceremonies in Athens he commaunded the Oratours to begyn their disputation Then euery man sought to preuent other in the ostentation of their wytte So ambitious a creature is man Anatolius laughed at them that sought to please their Schollars and pitied their Parents that had put them to such Teachers Then he called Proaeresius which was onely left He got familiaritie of Anatolius men and learned the meaning of all the purpose The which thing as the wryter sayde before was to be laughted at being of no moment nor any rewarde of victory propounded yet Proaeresius obeyed as soone as he was called And spake so aptly and eloquently to the thing that Anatolius leapt out of his seate and the audience was caried to cries and there was none but thought him a God in speache So as Anatolius esteemed him very much and as for the rest scarcely thought them worthy his table For he was pleasaunt and fine in talke at Feasts and there was no meale with out some purpose and learning These happened long before and the wryter had the better tyme to heare of them Anatolius esteemed much Nilesius borne in Smyrna a Cittie of Ionia a man of great wytte and geuen to a solytary lyfe He ministred in holy things and was without a wyfe and in verse and meter of passing knowledge so delighting Anatolius as he iudged him one of the Musies He called the Rhetoricall questions of Epiphanius Breakin gs reprouing the barrennes and lost busines in such tryfles He illuded all the inuentions of such Oratours saying if there were aboue thyrteene the problemes shoulde be infinite Not long before he was called of the Emperour into France who had him in such admyration as he admitted him to his table among his Nobillitie And where the men of that countrey coulde not attayne to the inwards doctrine of his minde they gaue their eyes to the wonder of his body maruayling at the highnes and goodlines therof As an high Picture vnto the which they could scarcely looke For in all thinges he was beyonde a man They that marked his temperaunce iudged him without affection lyke yron symple clad without shoes marueling he coulde abyde the colde of the countrey and drinke the frosen water of the Rhene For in all his lyfe he neuer dranke hotte drinke The Emperour sent him to the great Cittie of Rome for a glory that they shoulde see what men were subiect to the Emperour They could not tell at what to maruayle most all thinges dyd so passe mans nature Than for many causes louing him and lykewyse praysing him they made a Picture of Brasse of his iust stature and dedicated it to him with this inscription Rome Queene of the worlde To the King of Eloquence The Emperour gaue him leaue to returne to Athens and to aske what gyfte he woulde He asked a thing woorthy his nature Ilandes not fewe nor lyttle trybutarie to Athens in paying of Corne. The Emperour gaue them to him adding the greatest honour making him Lieftenaunt Generall that no man shoulde enuie that he had so great a publique reuenew The Presydent had authority to establysh these offices who was lately come out of France And after these dysputations he went to Anatolius to haue his office confyrmed calling to Athens all his friendes that myght congratulate with him in his dygnitie who resorted without number When the Theatre was full and he requyred his acquaintaunce might speake The President preuenting him to knowe what he coulde doo of the sodaine sayd Speake Proaeresius For it is not conuenient that other king then he that is present should praise the Emperour Than Proaeresius as an Horse called to the race spake of the gyft and rehearsed Celeo Triptolemus and the comming of Ceres with the gyfte of Corne applying the Emperours benefite to these examples Than strayght hee passed to the auncient Mannor of munisycence confirmed all things by examples and declared the glory of Fame by eloquence He tooke a wife of the Cittie of Trallis in Asia Her name was Amphiclea They had a Daughter that lyued so long as there is tyme betweene the conception and the byrth After the which tyme he had a fayre Sonne That made the Father glad for the tyme but shortly after fylled both Father and Mother with heauines by death As at the griefe therof Proaeresius seemed to loose all his Sap●ence But Nilesius with his musyke and sweete harmony restored his minde againe The Romaines required him to send his chiefe Disciple to them And he sent Eusebius of Alexandria who agreeing well with the

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

Oribasius he must be a gentle Philosopher that he may knowe what to esteeme aboue al other Such an armony and grace was shed and ioyned with al men in his samiliar acquaintance Ionicus IOnicus was of Sardis whose father was a singular Phisitian being Zenos Disciple He came to the lyght of knowledge In somuch as Oribasius had him in admiration He was most skylfull in the symples and compositions of Phisicke and best in particular practi●● He had perfit knowledge in mans body and a thorough searcher of nature There was no medicine nor iudgement that was vnknowen to him no not p●●isters that the most cunning laye to sores to ●bate the superfluitie and auoyde the encombraunce The best deuisor and practised man to close the corrupted partes and not to let other cut them All the actes and names he knew insomuch as they that had greatest name in Phisicke woondred at his dilligence and plainly confessed that being holpen by him they knew indeede what the auncients had wrytten and brought it into vse as names hyd with the wrytings Besyde this hee had great knowledge in other thinges of learning and Sapience And in diuination that appertayned to foresee the cure of men by arte of Phisicke and of the other that dependeth of Philosophy and endeth there for them that maye be holpen by secrete wayes He had also great knowledge in Rhetorique and other sciences And was not ignoraunt o● Poetrie He dyed a lytle before this was written hauing two chyldren woorthy of prayse and fame At this tyme one Theon of Galatia was of great fame Nowe let vs returne to Philosophers from whome we haue digressed Chrysanthius CHrysanthius was the cause that this Treatise was wrytten teaching the wryter from a Chylde and susteyning him to the ende as a lawe of beneuolence towarde him Yet for all that nothing shall be spoken partially of him for he loued trueth aboue all thinges and fyrst taught it chiefly We wyll not augment the benefyte receyued cut rather speake most moderatly of him for so it was agreed betweene vs Chrysanthius was of the Senate and for Nobilitie accoumpted with the best One Inocentius was his Grandfather a man of great rytches and estimation being appointed by the Emperours to make Lawes There be bookes of his extant written both in Greeke and Latine Which testifieth his deepe and stayed iudgement and contayne knowledge of these thinges for such as be desyrous of them Chrysanthius being left young of his Father and geuen to Philosophy by his diuine nature went to Pergamo to the great Aedesius And growing in yeares had such a desyre and thyrst of Philosophy as chancing on such a Teacher as dyd geue him inough to aslake his thyrst he lost no lesson nor gaue place to any in dilligence For he was of a sounde and strong body acquaynted with labour He got full knowledge in Aristotle and Plato and gaue all his minde to Philosophy And hauing vnderstanded all the sormes of the same he was of inclination to obtayne eloquence and in good way of exercise and doctrine He ouercame euery enterprise that he tooke in hande and had boidnes to make declaration of his proofe apt to speake and to be sylent also And when he spake to get the maistry he would vse high prayse and pompe After this he went to the study of knowledge of the Goddes and followed the Sapience that Pythagoras taught and other that followed him Besyde olde Architas and Tyaneus Apolonius and them that honoured Apolonius surely diuine men yet mortall After this study Chrysanthius going the strayght way taking the fyrst occasion by these principles and guides he prospered and attayned to such a perfection of the minde which Plato calleth a purgation as he gotte the full of all that science to the vttermost and was perfyte in all foresyght Men sayde he dyd better see than speake of things to come as one that euer had bene present with the Goddes After he had bestowed a good tyme this waye and coferred with Maximus very much he left his society For being contentious and obstinate of nature striuing against the tokens that God sent he searched and wrestled for others But Chrysanthius by induction when he had seene the fyrst stayde with the sygnifications that were geuen and eyther had the victory or if he were wroong supplyed it by polecie And when Iulianus the Emperour sent for them both by one calling appoynting souldiours for their honour bringing a perswasion from Thessalie ioygned with a ne●●ssitie that it seemed he dyd communicate with God and manifestly wrought with him as a priuate and dayly workman of the lower sort to iudge the tokens of God forbydding his going But Maximus continued fast in the Ceremonies and deuoutly vsing the Sacrifyces with cryes he would aske of God other tokens to differ the destiny And where he had styll contrary tokens and therby caused Chrysanthius to trye it againe yet at length the wyll of the Goddes was manifested by sygnes and their determination many times shewed by Sacrifice although the thing that appeared was not by him approued So as Maximus tooke that iourney which was cause of all calamitie Euen so Chrysanthius taryed at home At the fyrst the Emperour consydered the cause and coniectured why Chrysanthius would not come because he sawe difficulty in the matter Notwithstanding Iulianus wrote againe for him and not onely exhorted him but also moued his wyle to perswade him to come Chrysanthius againe resorted to diuine knowledge And the Goddes shewed him continually all one tokens The which comming oft to passe and the Emperour hauing great opinion of him gaue him the chiefe Byshoprike of that countrey And he knowing certainly what woulde followe was not grieuous in his dignitie nor oppressed the younger as all in this age were woont to do hotly and feruently neyther was he very extreme to the Christians So great lenitie was in his behauiour that in all Lydia it was scarcely knowen that there was any alteration of Religion Wherof followed when the chaunge came that no new thing seemed to be done Nothing sodenly appeared to be altred but al things stayed quietly and vniformly and without motion And where all other were tossed as with the Sea he onely was in quietnesse some of the sodaine throwen downe other rysing againe from their former myseries He was in admiration for that he dyd not onely foresee thinges to come but also vsed well the things he knewe This was his behauiour alwayes So as it might be seene that Socrates was reuiued againe or that from his youth he had immitated and followed him and was transformed into him A plaine and symple manner of grace appeared in his speeche yet the sweetnesse of his wordes dyd moue his audience He was gentle to all in conuersation Insomuch that they that went srom him were thought ambitious And as gentle and mylde versies do easily and readily enter and passe into euery mans

eares and moue thinges voyde of reason as they say of Orpheus So Chrysanthius speeche was harmonious to all men as it agreed and was fytte for such a diuersitye of manners Yet was hee styffe and stable in his sentence and opinion for the which he sawe most men at controuerly Seldome shoulde any man heare him boast of his learning or bee thereby the more insolent to others what they sayde he praysed though it were not well sayde Hee allowed an opinion though it were not of the ●est as though he hearde it not throughly seeming to bee borne to please and not to offende If there were any motion by the presence of some learned men and hee mynd●ug to saye any thing of the coutrouersie all was full or scilence as though there had bene noman So neyther int●●rogations diuisions nor repetions were requyred of him but refrayned from disputation and contradiction least they should seeme to fall into manifest fault Many that dyd but meanely knowe him and coulde not conceyue the depthe of his minde blamed his symple speeche and onelye praysed his myldnesse of mynde But when they hearde him dyspute and wrapping himselfe with reasons into pr●cepres they thought him to be another manner man than they supposed So vnlyke dyd he seeme vnto him selfe in matters of controuersie His heayres stoode ryght vp as in a feare and his eyes testified that his minde was rapt about his doctrine Lyuing to great yeares he spent his dayes without the cares of mans causes but onely for prouision of familie mayntenance of the Plowe and gayne that was iust He better dyd beare penury than others plenty His dyet was such as might be easily gotten He neuer eate Porke and syldome any other flesh Alwayes worshipping God he applyed the reading of olde Authors diligently He differed neyther in age nor in youth For being fowre score yeares olde he wrote so many Bookes with his owne hand as few young men can reade ouer wherby his fyngers endes for the continuall vse waxed crooked When he rose from study he recreated his mynde by walking softly abroade taking this wryter with him He would walke a good way but fayre and easily So as it might be thought he had paine in his feete so much was hee caryed with declaration of the trueth Bathes he seldome vsed yet alwayes seemed as he had bene washed As touching the company of great men hee refused not for arrogancie or pride but as it may be iudged for simplicitie as a man ignoraunt of power yet he talked with them openly and plainly He taught the wryter hereof being young who came to him to Athens And continued his loue towarde him as his Childe encreasing it with dayly beneuolence And so much encreased in learning this wryter as in the morning he taught others and read Rhetorique to them that woulde heare it And after noone resorted to his chiefe master to learn more diuine and Philosophicall matter which was not painefull because he bestowed it vpon his deere beloued and to him so readily taking it the worke was a pastime Than the Christian state preuayling and ruling ouer all One Iustus came to gouerne Asia from Rome which was a long iourney He being olde and of gentle behauiour not hauing lest the auncient rites of his countrey but followed that blessed and happy manner of life euer in prayer and depending vpon the aunsweres of God being the more bolde that he prospered so well therby He came dyrectly from Constantinople to Asia and appoynted Hilarius an officer who was of his owne opinion And on the sodaine set vp Altares at Sardis where was none and repayred the Temples that were decayed and making publique Sacrifyce By his letters sent to euery place called all such as had opinion and fame of learning who came to him out of hande maruayling at him thynking nowe the tyme to be come that euerie man might vtter his knowledge Some of these put their trust in flattering lyke chyldren hoping that way to get honour glorie or gayne There was a publique Feast proclaymed at the which all we●● present and among others the wryter hereof Iustus marking well and beholding the Sacrifice which lay out of order asked of them that were present what the forme of that manner of falling of the Host meant Here the flatterers were styrred with a great maruayle that he coulde diuine by Fygure and affyrmed that he onely knew it The grauer sort stryking their beardes with their fyngers endes staying their countenaunces and shaking their heads slowly and leysurely behelde the thing as it laye and sayde some one thing and some another Iustus scarcely refrayning from laughter turned to Chrysanthius speaking a lowde what saye you olde man Chrysanthius being nothing abashed sayde he disallowed all And if you sayde he wyll haue me speake what way there is of diuination say you first what kindes you know and of what forme of what question and what prefixed manner it proceedeth And if you tell this I wyll shew what the apparance sygnifyeth to come before you declare this it were a rude parte of mee to aunswere to your interrogation and to shewe of thinges to come seeing the Goddes wyll sygnifie sufficiently what shall be and ioygne that that is with that which must be hereafter By this reason there shoulde be two interrogations and no man is asked at ones of two or more for in thinges defynite controuersies hath not one consyderation Than Iustus cryed that he learned that he neuer knew before and ceassed not from that tyme to learne that he knewe not by conferrin● with him priuatelye to knowe from the foun●ayne that of which he was ignoraunt At this tyme many that had names of learning came to talke with Chrysanthius moued by the fame of his excellent knowledge But when they perceyued that they were farre inferiour to that Maiestie that was in him they went their wayes The lyke happened to Hellespontius of Galatia a verie syngular man and except Chrysanthius the chiefe of all He was so desyrous of learning that he went to places vnknowen to seeke better learned than him selfe And being furnished with goodlye trauayle and great learning he came to Sardis the olde Cittie of Lydia to speake with Chrysanthius Chrysanthius had a sonne of the name of his Maister Aedesius at Pergamo of whome we haue spoken before who from a chylde enclyned to vertue as one that with wynges was created to flie to it Not hauing but one of the Horses that Plato speaketh of neyther a puffed minde but quicke swyft to knowledge whollye bent to the honour of God and so much aboue the affections of the body as he seemed almost to be created of the mindeonely His body in mouing was so delyuer as is to be scarcelye credyted as one according to the Poets that was caryed in the ayre He had such familiaritie with diuine matter and that so easily and so readily that it was superfluous to set a