Pancrates ( el, Παγκράτης; fl. c. 140 AD) of

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

, was a Cynic philosopher.

Philostratus Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (; grc-gre, Φιλόστρατος ; c. 170 – 247/250 AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He was born probab ...

relates, that when the celebrated

sophist A sophist ( el, σοφιστής, sophistes) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics, and mathematics. They taught ' ...

Lollianus Lollianus (sometimes rendered in English as ''Lollian'') is a Roman personal name which may refer to many figures of classical antiquity, including: *Lollianus ( Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, sometimes called Lollianus Spurius), a general proclaimed ...

was in danger of being stoned by the Athenians in a tumult about

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, Pancrates quieted the mob by exclaiming that Lollianus was not a "bread-dealer" ( el, ἀρτοπώλης) but a "word-dealer" ( el, λογοπώλης).

Alciphron Alciphron ( grc-gre, Ἀλκίφρων) was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever. Works We possess under the ...

also mentions a Cynic philosopher of this name in his fictitious letters.Alciphron, ''Epistles'', iii. 55.

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