Appollonius, The name of diuerse learned men, one borne in Greece, about the yeare of our Lorde, 90. in his infancie so profited in learning, that being but a childe, he was a great Phylosopher, and followed the sect of Pythagoras, going alway in linnen, and neuer eating any thing that had life. And notwithstanding he was ercellently learned in % mysticall knowledge of Philosophie and naturall magike, yet to haue knowledge, he went into Aegypt, Persia, Ethiope, and Indea, to learne of the Bragmanes, and Gymnosophistes, and retourned into Greece and Rome. where hee was had in great admiration for the meruayles that he shewed. And at last, being aboue the age of 80. yeares, in a great assembly of people, was sodeinly conueighed away, no man knoweth how nor whether, as Philostratus, who writeth his life, saith. Also saint Hierome maketh abundantly mention of him in his prologue to % olde testament. There were of this name three great Phifitions: One called Apollonius Memphites, the disciple of Erasistratus: he first of any Phisiiou wrate of the partes of mans bodie. The other two were of Antioch, the father and the sonne.
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