Quotes:Aristides, P. Aelius

Zirkoff, Boris

Aristides, P. Aelius. Sumamed Theodorus. One of the most celebrated Greek rhetoricians of the second century after Christ, b. at Adriani in Mysia, the son of Eudaemon, a priest of Zeus. Travelled extensively and resided for many years in Smyrna. His eloquence brought him a great many honors, and he had considerable influence with the emperor Marcus Aurelius. We have from him some fifty or more orations and several treatises on various subjects. In some of his orations there are many accounts respecting the cure of the sick in temples by means which suggest a knowledge of mesmeric forces.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 564