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Rh The former, more of a rhetorician and a man of letters than a bishop, translated his biography into Latin. It is somewhat extraordinary that the philosophical school of Alexandria which was represented by Porphyry and Iamblichus did not esteem him more than they did, but they probably had their reasons. On the other hand, however, Hierocles, one of the last and most brilliant champions of expiring Paganism, in his Discursus Philalethes, seized eagerly upon the character of Apollonius, and set it up in opposition to the Christ of the Gospels. He succeeded, it appears, to some extent, for his opponent, Eusebius of Caesarea, states that this portion of the attacks of Hierocles requires a special reply, whilst the rest of his work is a mere repetition of the old objections made against Christianity from the earliest times. Lactantius also deems it necessary to write against the parallel which had been drawn by Hierocles, and he does it with such warmth and energy that the importance which was attached to the controversies of the period may be easily imagined. Arnobius and the fathers of