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Apollonius and the eunuch (1)

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Keywords
eunuchs
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.21:
When Apollonius declined the money, the eunuch said, “Well, at least take a jar of Babylonian wine, which the king drinks when toasting us ten governors.”


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Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.21

Bibliography

Jones 2005, 82-85Jones, Ch. P. Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 2005.

Amar Annus


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