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inivelle through Asiaminor Graeco, ace- dorsia, Italy, and Gaul. In Greec he hecameam inlato miti the Platoni philosopher, Nigrinus, hon he asterivatas me a Rome, and by rhoi he was almos persuade to adiuuloniis stud of rhetori se philosoplay. Aster a sta es abolat two ear in orne, he passe into Gaul, uniere lis live so moretinan tenaears during Whici time lio amasse lsuffiment mone to enatae hirn to retire. Heresume to the Eas by ma es acedonia his las lectum uas delivered a Thessalonica)to his native place Samosata, vixere heriound his fine stili alivo, an remove hirn and his arnil to Graece, Whither he stemmarda

adhesion In A.D. 196 his diminishing means illigo huncio return to tho profession of hismunge da , and lae accepte honi the Emperor Marcus Aurelius o Commodus an honourata an lucrativo post in connection

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temporaries, he more early approximates tolli literar genius es inodem times. Resembling ollaire in sis o uer of rhetoricand ridicula, lie a more sincere, more Con- sinentio , an more a love os truth sor uso n alis; ut the multa es his e risagaius the salse religio an philosophi of

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age, iis superstitions in hypocris es ita philomphera, and the insipidit os iis pro-

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X INTRODUCTIONs sed scholars, vhich he satirisod th Insparin hand. e mas almus hostile in Christianio, hut Κου bocalis his acquaintance tia ita doctrines mas linuted an her arde ita follo em a meret an adclitionto the a1ready mcistin philosophica secta, and It doctrines as a ne Oriental superstition. His acquaintance th the lalse propheta an magicians of Syria an Asia Minor laad inspired in vitii a generiithatro of Orientalisin and ita demonologies, an he had corne to the conclusion that restion vas ores ille ossi ring of men's

piam against false religion an philosophi

utere meret destructis an negative. o vas no ovi a scepti an a Miser hiata domnright inbellever. Meling thau men's actions always sal far hortis thes professions lis conclude profession to lis vorthlem, and meret made so the pur se of Securi respectoni popularity. The result vas sint, long ma the old mythologyand tho illusor religiolis ideas es si time, he at in arane in underintne es fear of

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inmores,' lina heon disputed by inodem miti . A detine discusnon es ali his mortis ovi fili a Volume, but a se m totasma here iis devote to the three in queation.

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