A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

3. Of Gadara in Phoenicia, a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the reign of Maximinus, about A. D. 235. He studied at Smyrna under Heracleides, the Lycian, and afterwards at Nicomedia under Basilicus. He subsequently taught rhetoric at Athens, and distinguished himself so much that he was honoured with the consular

dignity. (Suidas, s.v. Tzetzes. Chil. 8.696.) He was a friend of Philostratus (Vit. Soph. 2.33.4), who praises the strength and fidelity of his memory, but is afraid to say more for fear of being suspected of flattery or partiality.

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