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 A P O L L O N I U S. 181 cures. Philoftratus has written the " Life of Apnllonius," in which there are numberlefs fabulous ftories recounted of him. We are told that he wtr.tfivc years without fpeaking;id. Jbid, and yet, during this time, that he flopped many fcditions in Cilicia and Piimnhylia : that he travelled, and fet up fora kgiilator; and that he gave out he undcrftood all languages, without havinw ever learned them; that he could tell the thoughts of men, and underftood the oracles which birds gave by their finding. The heathens were fond of oppnfmg the pretended miracles of this man to thole of our Saviour: and by a trcatife which Eufebius wrote againft one Hierocles, we find that the drifc of the latter, in the treatife which Eu- febius refutes, had been to draw a parallel betwixt Jefut Chrift and Apollonius, in which he gives the preference to this philofopher. Mr. Du Pin has written a confutation of " Philoftratus's ' Life of Apollonius," in which he proves, i. That the hiftory of this philofopher is dcftitute of fuch proofs as can be credited. 2. That Philodratus has not written a hiilory, but a romance. 3. That the miracles afcribed to Apollo- nius carry {bong marks of falfhoodj and that there is not one which may not be imputed to chance or artifice. 4. That the doctrine of this philofopher is in many particulars oppo- fite to right fenfe and reafon. Apollonius wr&te fome works, which are now loft [A]. FA! He had written four books of he wrote al Co a great number ofletter& ' iudicial aftroloty;" ind " a Treatife Fh.ioftratus in Vita Apollonii, lib. iii> ' "upon the Sacrifices," (hewing what cap. 13. was proper to be orYcrtd to each deity : APONO (PETER D'), a famous philofopher and phyfi- cian of his age, born 1250, in a village near Padua. He ftudied fome time at Paris, and was there promoted to the degree of doctor in philofophy and phyfic. When he came to pracVife as a phyfician, he is faid to have infifhd on very lar^e fums for his vifus: we are not told what his demands Mercklin.ai were in the place of his refidence, but it is affirmed that hej; indeni f* i i 1 vould not attend the ficlc in any other piace under an hun- p . dred and fifty florins a day ; and when he was fent for pope Honorius IV. he demanded four hundred ducats each day'sattcndance. He was fufpedled of magic, and pro- liv.i.cb, 4^ fecuted by the inquifition on that account. tl The common 44 opinion of almoft all authors," fays Naude, ' 4 is, that he " was the created magician of his age : that he had acquired "the
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