A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

3. Of Perinthus, a Greek sophist, was a pupil of Herodes Atticus. An account of him is given by Philostratus. (Vit. Soph. 2.17, pp. 597, 598, ed. Olearius; comp. Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 92, n. 5.)