Travels in Asia Minor; Or An Account of a Tour Made At the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti
Travels in Asia Minor; Or An Account of a Tour Made At the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti
Richard Chandler
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The order was treated with severity by Valens his successor, because some of them, to' animate their party, had foretold that the next emperor would be a gehtile. They were addicted to divination and magic, and it was pretended, had partly discovered his name. The habit was not wholly laid aside. In the next reign, asedition happened at Alexandria, when Olympius, a philosopher, wearing the cloke, was ex- ceedingly active, urging the Gentiles to repel the reformers, and not to remit of their zea...l or be disheartened because they were dispossessed of their idols ; for the powers, which had inhabited them, were, he asserted, flown away into hea- ven. The heathen philosophers gradually disappeared ; but the Christian, their successors, are not yet extinct, still flou* rishing in Catholic countries, and differing not less than the ancient sects, in dress, tenets, and rules of living. The decline of philosophy must have deeply affected the prosperity of Athens. A gradual desertion of the place fol- lowed.
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