The Preface.
then believe Philoſtratus himſelf, for he is the προσήκων τὶς, not the familiar friend, but the familiar ſpirit of Apollonius: it was he indeed that wrought all theſe Wonders, for Apollonius himſelf never wrought any. Now for the Learning of this Tyaneus (ſince it is the pleaſure of ſome men to think him learned) I muſt confeſs for my part I cannot find it. The Philoſophy that he pretended to, was that of Pythagoras, for thus he rants it to Vardanes the Babylonian: Σοφία ᾖ μοι Πυθαγός ε, Σαμίε ἀνδρὸς, &c. I am a Maſter (ſaith he) of the Wiſdom of Pythagoras the Samian, he taught me the true form of worſhipping the gods, and who of them are viſible, who inviſible, and how I may come to ſpeak with them. How true this is, we may eaſily know, if we look back on his Education. His Tutor in the Pythagorean Principles was one Euxenus, a notable Sot, and a meer Ignorant, as Philoſtratus tells us. He was (ſaith our Author) an Epicure in his courſe of life; and for his Learning, he could only repeat ſome ſentences of Pythagoras, but did not underſtand them: and therefore he com-
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