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Son of Pasicrates; of Prusa.¹ Sophist and philosopher; they called him 'Golden Mouth' [Chrysostomos]. He affected gravity to such an extent that he went out wearing a lion's skin. He was physically slight, and he spent much of his time with the Caesar Trajan, so that he even sat with him in the imperial chariot. He wrote Is the Cosmos Perishable?; Encomium of Heracles and Plato; In Defence of Homer against Plato, 4 [books]; On the Virtues of Alexander, 5 [books].
This man even attacks Homer for falsifying his record of the Trojan war.²