A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Λολλιανός), a celebrated Greek sophist in the time of Hadrian and Antoninns Pius, was a native of Ephesus, and received his training in the school of the Assyrian Isaeus. [ISAEUS, No. 2.] He was the first person nominated to the professor's chair (Δρόνος) of sophistik at Athens, where he also filled the office of στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ τῶν ὅπλων, which, under the emperors, had become merely a praefectura annonae. The liberal manner in which he discharged the duties of this office in the time of a famine is recorded with well-merited praise by Philostratus. Two statues were erected to him at Athens, one in the agora, and the other in the small grove which he is said to have planted himself.