[281] Ibid. i. 8.
[282] Ibid. i. 13.
[283] Ibid. i. 14, 15.
[284] Brucker, vol. ii. p. 104.
[285] Philostr. i. 16.
[286] See Olear. præfat. ad vitam. As he died, U.C. 849, he is usually considered to have lived to a hundred. Since, however, here is an interval of almost twenty years in which nothing important happens, in a part also of his life unconnected with any public events to fix its chronology, it is highly probable that the date of his birth is put too early. Philostratus says that accounts varied, making him live eighty, ninety, or one hundred years; see viii. 29. See also ii. 12, where, by some inaccuracy, he makes him to have been in India twenty years before he was at Babylon.—Olear. ad locum et præfat. ad vit. The common date of his birth is fixed by his biographer's merely accidental mention of the revolt of Archelaus against the Romans, as taking place before Apollonius was twenty years old; see i. 12.
[287] Philostr. i. 19.
[288] Philostr. i. 27-41.
[289] Ibid. ii. 1-40. Brucker, vol. ii. p. 110.
[290] Ibid. iii. 51.