Theater of Fate

He was not so much pleased as he was overjoyed by the study of wisdom in the first years of his youth; having received the Magi of the Persians, he easily surpassed all in learning, nor did he refuse to give his name to military service under Gordian, so that he might enter Persia, against which the Emperor was preparing war, and meet the most famous men in that land. When things did not flow according to his wishes, he came to Rome, and lived there in great celebrity until the end of his life, which occurred for him in the second year of the Emperor Claudius, in the sixty-sixth year of his life. His works which are extant, in which there is a book on Fate and another on Providence, were produced with Marsilio Ficino as interpreter, Basel, 1580, folio. His life was handed down to us by

PORPHYRIUS,

his disciple, by the surname Malchus the Tyrian and worthy of being commended by other names, had he not attacked the Christian Religion with a venomous pen in fifteen books. Detesting this impiety of his, we nevertheless cannot deny him a place among our philosophers, mindful that his work, On That Which Is In Our Power, is cited by Stobaeus Stobaeus in Moral Eclogues, last chapter.. The story of his life is told from the ancients by Eunapius; from the more recent writers by Lucas Holstenius. But regarding his Epistle to Abammon...