FRANCISCI PATRICII

The Armenian, grandson of Hosthanes, and the Pamphylian, a friend of Cyrus.

Arnobius not only separates the Magus Zoroaster from the Bactrian Zoroaster with these words, but he also separates those whom Clement—as we have seen—had joined together. For if the Pamphylian Zoroaster was a friend of Cyrus, and the Armenian was the grandson of Hosthanes; and since Hosthanes came into Greece with Xerxes, it becomes manifest that these two were different: since 78 years passed from Cyrus to Xerxes, and the grandson Zoroaster must necessarily have been younger than Hosthanes, his uncle. There are, therefore, four Zoroasters according to Arnobius, but a fifth, Persomedas, about whom Suidas wrote to this effect: