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134 ANCIENT EPHESUS.
Among the Sophists were Damianus and Adrianus.
The name of Damianus deserves especially to be
recorded, from his benefactions to the city of
Ephesus. He restored many public buildings, he
built the portico connecting the city with the
Temple of Diana, and he erected the magnificent
ccenaculum of the temple; but besides these
acts of public liberality, he showed himself to be
endued with real greatness of mind, by lending
money to his friends without interest, giving to the
poor without return, and lending a ready ear to
everyone. This most excellent man, after filling
the highest offices in the state, revered by the
elders, and loved by the poorer citizens, died at the
age of seventy, and was buried in his suburban villa
at Ephesus.1 He lived in the age of the Emperor
Septimius Severus,2 (AD. 194—211).
I will close this list with the name of Phormio,3 a
Peripatetic philosopher of Ephesus, avIio once gave
a lecture on the duties of an officer and the military
profession, without knowing anything of the subject
which he was treating; whereupon the celebrated
Hannibal, who happened to be present, said, " I
have seen many doting old men, but never one
worse than Phormio." Phormio is not the only
lecturer of his class.
1 Philost. Vit. Soph. ii. 23. 2 Suidas, sub voce.
3 Cic. de Fat. Deo. 2.
Among the Sophists were Damianus and Adrianus.
The name of Damianus deserves especially to be
recorded, from his benefactions to the city of
Ephesus. He restored many public buildings, he
built the portico connecting the city with the
Temple of Diana, and he erected the magnificent
ccenaculum of the temple; but besides these
acts of public liberality, he showed himself to be
endued with real greatness of mind, by lending
money to his friends without interest, giving to the
poor without return, and lending a ready ear to
everyone. This most excellent man, after filling
the highest offices in the state, revered by the
elders, and loved by the poorer citizens, died at the
age of seventy, and was buried in his suburban villa
at Ephesus.1 He lived in the age of the Emperor
Septimius Severus,2 (AD. 194—211).
I will close this list with the name of Phormio,3 a
Peripatetic philosopher of Ephesus, avIio once gave
a lecture on the duties of an officer and the military
profession, without knowing anything of the subject
which he was treating; whereupon the celebrated
Hannibal, who happened to be present, said, " I
have seen many doting old men, but never one
worse than Phormio." Phormio is not the only
lecturer of his class.
1 Philost. Vit. Soph. ii. 23. 2 Suidas, sub voce.
3 Cic. de Fat. Deo. 2.