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 <blockquote>Lollianus of Ephesus was the first to be appointed to the chair of rhetoric at Athens, and he also governed the Athenian people, since he held the office of strategus in that city. The functions of this office were formerly to levy troops and lead them to war, but now it has charge of food-supplies and the provision-market. Once when a riot arose in the bread-sellers' quarter, and the Athenians were on the point of stoning Lollianus, **Pancrates the Cynic**, who later professed philosophy at the Isthmus, came forward before the Athenians and by simply remarking, "Lollianus does not sell bread but words," he so diverted the Athenians that they let fall the stones that were in their hands. Once when a cargo of grain came by sea from Thessaly and there was no money in the public treasury to pay for it, Lollianus bade his pupils contribute, and a large sum was collected. This device proves him to have been a very ingenious man and prudent in public affairs, but what followed proved that he was both just and magnanimous. For by remitting the fee for his lectures he repaid this money to those who had subscribed it.
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-The sophist was considered to be deeply versed in his art and very clever in working out successfully the train of reasoning that depends on skill in invention. His style was admirable, and in the invention and arrangement of hid ideas he was free from affection and redundancy. In his oratory brilliant passages flare out and suddenly come to an end like a flash of lightning. This is evident in all that he wrote, but especially in the example that I now quote. his theme was to denounce the Leptines on account of his law, because the supply of corn had failed to reach the Athenians from the Pontus; and he wound up as follows: "The mouth of the Pontus has been locked up by a law, and a few syllables keep back the food supply of Athens; so that Lysander fighting with his ships and Leptines fighting with his law have the same power." Again, when his theme was to oppose the Athenians, when in a scarcity of funds they were planning to sell the islands, he declaimed with energy the following: "Take back, Poseidon, the favour that you granted to Delos! Permit her, while we are selling her, to make her escape!" in his extempore speeched he imitated Isaeus, whose pupil he had been. He used to charge handsome fees, and in his classes he not only declaimed but also taught the rules of the art. There are two statues of him at Athens, one in the agora, the other in the small grove which he is said to have planted himself.
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