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EPIFANIA (Ancient city) SYRIA
Eustathius, of Epiphaneia in Syria, a rhetorician of the time of the emperor Anastasius.
He wrote an historical work in nine books, intitled Chronike epitome. It consisted
of two parts, the first of which embraced the history from the creation to the
time of Aeneias; and the second from the time of Aeneias down to the twelfth year
of the reign of the emperor Anastasius. With the exception of a few fragments,
the whole work is lost. (Evagrius, iii. 37, vi. in fin.; Nicephor. Prooem. and
xiv. 57; Suidas, s. v. Eustathios.) There is another Eustathius of Epiphaneia,
who belongs to an earlier date, and was present among the Arians at the synod
of Seleuceia, in A. D. 359. (Epiphan. lxxiii. 26; Chron. Alexandr., ed. Cange.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Euphrates, an eminent Stoic philosopher of the time of Hadrian. According to Philostratus (Vit. Soph. i. 7, Vit. Apoll. i. 13), he was a native of Tyre, and according to Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Epiphaneia), of Epiphaneia in Syria; whereas Eunapius (ed. Boissonade) calls him an Egyptian. At the time when Pliny the younger served in Syria, he became acquainted with Euphrates, and seems to have formed an intimate friendship with him. In one of his letters (Epist. i. 10) he gives us a detailed account of the virtues and talents of Euphrates. His great power as an orator is acknowledged also by other contemporaries poraries (Arrian, Dissert. Epictet. iii. 15, iv. 8 ; M. Aurel. x. 31), though Apollonius of Tyana charges him with avarice and servile flattery. When he had arrived at an advanced age, and was tired of life, he asked and obtained from Hadrian the permission of putting an end to himself by poison. (Dion Cass. lxix. 8.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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