3So Philostratus, having a long white beard and wearing a dark robe, would follow behind Areius, ever declaiming this verse:—
When Caesar learned of this, he pardoned him, wishing rather to free Areius from odium than Philostratus from fear.“A wise man will a wise man save, if wise he be.”61An iambic trimeter from an unknown poet (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 921).
Notes
[61] An iambic trimeter from an unknown poet (Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag.2 p. 921).