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232 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMlearn. This was in the year 70, and on his return liehad a correspondence with Titus, who had just takenJerusalem, and by his invitation visited him at Tarsus.He gave Titus much the same advice as to his government,and with the same assumption of superiority, ashe had given to his father, Vespasian." These," says the biographer, " were the countrieswhich Apollonius visited in his ardour to give andreceive instruction. He made no further journeysto nations unvisited before, but he continued to visitPhoenicians, lonians, and Italians, ever remainingconsistent with himself. Hard as it is to knowoneself, I esteem it harder for the wise man to remainalways consistent with himself. For that man willmake no improvement on the corrupt minds of otherswho has not first so ordered himself by discipline asnot to change." Then, after giving certain anecdotesrespecting his life at different times, he concluded thiswhole period with saying, " Such were the deeds of theman in behalf of temples and cities and peoples, thedead, or the sick: such his intercourse with the wisethd the foolish, and with emperors who made himtThe seventh book of Philostratus opens a new periodin the life of Apollonius. He had visited the Indianwise men in early manhood, and the Ethiopian wisemen in the full maturity of age, only to find his doctrineidentical with that of the former and superior tothat of the latter. The meaning of this obviously is,that the Greek wisdom and culture which he carriedin his person found nothing outside of Greece to surpassor compete with it. And he as representing ithas traversed the Roman Empire from end to end,1 Book vi. 43.* » " " -* * *".*'""" : .