ABSTRACT
Plutarch [inJ. 312] which relates that after the seizure of Cleopatra and the capture of Alexandria Octavius honoured the great philosopher Arrius and pardoned the orator Philostratus although he disliked the latter's pretence to be an Academic philosopher. In Daniel Philostratus thanks An'ius for saving his life and expatiates on the failure of consolatory eloquence in man's hour of need,
For when this ship of life pale Terror boords, Where are our precepts then, where is our art?
