Favorinus
- a celebrated Roman philosopher in the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Gell. 1, 3, 27; 2, 12, 5 al.
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…manubias et praedam, si duo haec verba idem significant neque ulla re aliqua dissident. Atque, ut erat Favorinus egregia vel divina quadam memoria, verba ipsa M. Tulli statim dixit. Ea nos hic adscripsimus Praedam ,…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…non esse frustra ratus, quod erat mandatum fecit. Ita litterae perlatae sunt. X Quid de versibus Vergilii Favorinus existumarit, quibus in describenda flagrantia montis Aetnae Pindarum poetam secutus est ; conlataque ab eo super eadem re utriusque…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…in hominibus valeret, deficeret in ceteris. Haec nos sicca et incondita et propemodum ieiuna oratione adtingimus. Set Favorinus, ut hominis ingenium fuit utque est Graecae facundiae copia simul et venustas, latius ea et amoenius et splendidius…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…sola virtute vitam fieri beatam dicere, quoniam, cum virtus abest, beata esse vita numquam potest. Tum Favorinus aspiciens Peripateticum, Est quidem, inquit, argutiola haec qua de congio vini usus es exposita in libris ;…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…adeo ignorat, penum esse vinum et triticum et oleum et lentim et fabam atque huiuscemodi cetera Etiamne, inquit Favorinus, milium et panicum et glans et hordeum penus est sunt enim propemodum haec quoque eiusdemmodi ; cumque ille reticens…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…ἀλλὰ σιγᾶν ἀδύνατος, ex quo hoc profecto sumptum est Qui cum loqui non posset, tacere non potuit. Favorinum ego audivi dicere versus istos Euripidi Ἀχαλίνων στομάτων Ἀνόμου τʼ ἀφροσύνας Τὸ τέλος δυστυχία, non de his tantum factos…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…neque dictu neque auditu dignam, cum differre matronam et matrem familias existimavit differentia longe vanissima VII Quem in modum Favorinus tractaverit intempestivum quendaim de verborum ambiguitatibus quaerentem ; atque ibi, quot significationes capiat contio VIII Ὁμοιοτέλευτα et ὁμοιόπτωτα atque…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…sit ; item quod decemviri in XII. Tabulis nox pro noctu dixerunt. II QUAE mihi decem verba ediderit Favorinus, quae usurpentur quidem a Graecis, sed sint adulterina et barbara ; quae item a me totidem acceperit ,…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…quasdam distantias coloris rufi videntur, vel augentes eum vel remittentes vel mixta quadam specie temperantes. Tum Fronto ad Favorinum, Non infitias, inquit, imus quin lingua Graeca, quam tu videre elegisse, prolixior fusiorque sit quam…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
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…exercitio utili celebrata ; ac praeterea M. Catonis de poeniendis furtis digna memoria sententia Capitula Libri Duodecimi I Dissertatio Favorini philosophi, qua suasit nobili feminae uti liberos quos peperisset, non nutricum aliarum, sed sibi suo lacte aleret…
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
(Φαβωρῖνος). A native of Arelaté in Gaul, who lived at Rome during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, and enjoyed a high degree of consideration. He is said to have been born an hermaphrodite or a eunuch, yet was once charged with adultery by a Roman of rank; so that he afterwards used to boast of three things—that being a eunuch, he had been accused of adultery; that though a Gaul, he both wrote and spoke Greek; and that though he had given offence to the emperor, he still lived. He wrote numerous works, but no part of them has reached us except a few fragments in Stobaeus. Aulus Gellius, however, has preserved for us some of his dissertations in a Latin dress (Noct. Att. xii. 1; xiv. 1, 2; xvii. 10). Gellius, in fact, regarded him with great admiration, and in his Noctes Atticae plays Boswell in a mild way to Favorinus's Johnson. Favorinus loved to write on topics out of the common path, and more or less whimsical; he composed, for example, a eulogy on Thersites, another on quartan fever, etc. Having had the misfortune to offend the emperor Hadrian, his statues, which the Athenians had raised to him, were thrown down by that same people. He bequeathed his library and mansion at Rome to Herodes Atticus. Favorinus was a friend of Plutarch, who dedicated a work to him. For further particulars relating to this individual, consult Philostratus (Vit. Sophist. i. 8, 1), and Lucian (Eunuch. 7; Demon. 12 foll.), and Prof. Nettleship's paper on Aulus Gellius in his Lectures and Essays, etc. (1885).