BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ARRIAN. 



Luciani Alex- 

 ander seuPseu- 

 domantis. 



'Aj'7//j 'Vw^aiuv iv to7s irpurots, Kol iraiSeia irap o\ov rhv fiiov (xvyyfpdfievos. 



Mr. Addison has remarked, that " a reader seldom peruses 

 a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be 

 a black or a fair man, of a mild or a choleric disposition, 

 married, or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like 

 nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of 

 an author." If, however, the satisfaction of perusing the Cy- 

 negeticus of Arrian be dependent on a previous acquaintance 

 with these personal particulars of their author, I fear the 

 modern reader will regret the insufficiency of the following 

 biographical notice. Scanty as it is, it contains all the infor- 

 mation I have been able to collect relative to the younger 

 Xenophon. ^ 



Flavins Arrianus " was a citizen both of Athens and Rome, 

 of Grecian extraction, and born probably in the reign of 

 Domitian, at Nicomedia, a celebrated city of Bithynia ; where, 

 according to Photius on the authority of our author's " Bithy- 



Arriani Cyne- 

 getic. passim. 



1. Arrian invariably calls himself Xenophon ; and his predecessor of the same 

 name he designates, for distinction's sake, rhv vd\ai, rhv irpeafivrepov. In tlie 

 Cynegeticus he refers to him as rtfi TpvWov, rcf ifiavrou d/j.wvvfxw, eKeivep t^ 

 s,evo<puvri, 



2. With the citizenship of Rome, bestowed upon him by the Emperor, when iu 

 Greece, as it is supposed, A. D. 124, he assumed the Roman name of Flavins; and 

 subsequent to his return from the prefecture of Cappadocia, he was probably raised 

 to the consulate. 



