Schools, and the Houses of the Great; to be Companions for their Princes[1], and to leave some noble Monuments for Posterity.
It will probably be thought too great a Refinement to observe, that Homer must have
- ↑ Theophanes the Historian, Pompey's great Friend and Counsellor, was of Mitylene: His Son was afterwards Prefect of Asia. Aristodemus of Nysa had been Pompey's Master; and his Cousin-German of the same Name, was entrusted with the Education of the Children of that great Man. His younger Son Sextus Pompey, when he was Lord of the Seas, had Dionysius the Halicarnassean among his Friends, the celebrated Historian and Critick. Theopompus of Gnidus, and his Son, were both Favourites of Julius Cæsar; and the Father had a great hand in his short Administration. Apollonius Molo was Cicero's Master. Pompey going to his Eastern Expedition, paid Posidonius a Visit in his School at Rhodes, and humbled his Fasces at the Gate as they used to do to a Superior: When he was about to take leave, Pompey asked his Commands, and this courtly Philosopher bid him, in a line of Homer Άιἑν ἀειςεὐειν καἰ Τωθρχν έμμζυαι ἄλλων, Always excel and shine above the rest; the thing in the World he most wanted to do. Hybreas the finest Speaker in his time, was in high Favour with Marc Antony; and the Care of Augustus's Manners was committed by Cæsar his Uncle, to Apollodore the Pergamenian. The elder Athenodore needs no other Proof of his Virtue and Merit, than that he lived and died with Marcus Cato. The younger held a high Place in Augustus's Favour, grew dearer to him the longer he lived, got great Honour; and when weary of the Court, returned with absolute Power from the Prince to reform and govern his native City. He was succeeded in favour and Honour by Nestor the Academick, who was charged with the Education of the noble Marcellus, Octavia's Son, and apparent Heir of the Empire.
great Mithridates. Hegesias, Xenocles, and Menippus, were the Authors and greatest Ornaments of the Asiatick Eloquence: And in general, the Teachers of Oratory and Philosophy came from the same Coast: Diophanes; Potamon and Lesbocles, great Men and Rivals, from Mitylene; Crinagoras, Dionysius Atticus, Diodorus Sardianus, Diotrephes Alexander sirnamed Lychnus, Dionysocles, and Damasus called Scombrus; Apollonius Nysæus, Menecrates, Apollonius Malacus, Nicias of Cos, who grew Ambitious and turned Tyrant; Theodoras Cronus the Dialectick, Archidamus, Antipater, Nestor, Stoicks with many others, whom see in Seneca the Father, his Controver. & Suasor. where he relates the Sentences of the Grecian Masters.
