Antony

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. IX. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920.

This honour Caesar bestowed upon Areius, and pardoned many other persons also at his request. Among these was Philostratus, a man more competent to speak extempore than any sophist that ever lived, but he improperly represented himself as belonging to the school of the Academy. Therefore Caesar, abominating his ways, would not listen to his entreaties.

So Philostratus, having a long white beard and wearing a dark robe, would follow behind Areius, ever declaiming this verse:—

  1. A wise man will a wise man save, if wise he be.
[*](An iambic trimeter from an unknown poet (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 921).) When Caesar learned of this, he pardoned him, wishing rather to free Areius from odium than Philostratus from fear.