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See also:FAVORINUS (2nd See also:century A.D.) , See also:Greek sophist and philosopher, flourished during the reign of See also:Hadrian. A See also:Gaul by See also:birth, he was a native of Arelate (See also:Arles), but at an See also:early See also:age began his lifelong travels through See also:Greece, See also:Italy and the See also:East. His extensive knowledge, combined with See also:great oratorical See also:powers, raised him to See also:eminence both in See also:Athens and in See also:Rome. With See also:Plutarch, who dedicated to him his See also:treatise Hepi rob rpi rov ¢vxpofi, with Herodes See also:Atticus, to whom he bequeathed his library at Rome, with See also:Demetrius the Cynic, See also:Cornelius See also:Fronto, Aulus See also:Gellius, and with Hadrian himself, he lived on intimate terms; his great See also:rival, whom he violently attacked in his later years, was Polemon of See also:Smyrna. It was Favorinus who, on being silenced by Hadrian in an See also:argument in which the sophist might easily have refuted his adversary, subsequently explained that it was foolish to criticize the See also:logic of the See also:master of See also:thirty legions. When the servile Athenians, feigning to See also:share the See also:emperor's displeasure with the sophist, pulled down a statue which they had erected to him, Favorinus remarked that if only See also:Socrates also had had a statue at Athens, he might have been spared the See also:hemlock. Of the very numerous See also:works of Favorinus, we possess only a few fragments (unless the Kopiv9LaKOS Xeyos attributed to his See also:tutor Dio See also:Chrysostom is by him), preserved by Aulus Gellius, See also:Diogenes Laertius, See also:Philostratus, and Suidas, the second of whom borrows from his Havro&aait iaropia (See also:miscellaneous See also:history) and his'Airoµvnµoveenara (See also:memoirs). As a philosopher, Favorinus belonged to the sceptical school; his most important See also:work in this connexion appears to have been Happwvewl rpinrot (the Pyrrhonean Tropes) in ten books, in which he endeavours to show that the methods of Pyrrho were useful to those who intended to practise in the See also:law courts.
See Philostratus, Vitae sophistarum, i. 8; Suidas, s.v.; frags. in C. NV. See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, Frag. Hist. Graec. iii. 4; monographs by L. Legre (1900), T. Colardeau (1903),
a See also:tomb said to be his. He was buried at the See also:abbey he founded FAVRAS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS DE MAHY, See also:MARQUIS DE (1744-1790), See also:French royalist, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:March 1744, at See also:Blois. He belonged to a poor See also:family whose See also:nobility dated from the 12th century. At seventeen he was a See also:captain of dragoons, and saw some service in the closing See also:campaign of the Seven Years' See also:War. In 1772 he became first See also:lieutenant of the Swiss See also:guards of the See also:count of See also:Provence (afterwards See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII.). Unable to meet the expenses of his See also:rank, which was See also:equivalent to the grade of See also:colonel in the See also:army, he retired in 1775. He married in 1776 See also:Victoria Hedwig See also:Caroline, princess of See also:Anhalt-See also:Bernburg-Schaumburg, whose See also:mother, deserted by her See also:husband See also:Prince Carl See also:Ludwig in 1749, had found See also:refuge with her daughter in the See also:house of See also:Marshal See also:Soubise. After his See also:marriage he went to See also:Vienna to See also:press the restitution of his wife's rights, and spent some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Warsaw. In 1787 he was authorized to raise a patriotic See also:legion to help the Dutch against the See also:stadtholder See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. and his Prussian See also:allies. Returning to See also:Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution, he became implicated in schemes for the See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape of Louis XVI. from Paris and the dominance of the See also:National See also:Assembly. He was commissioned by the count of Provence through one of his gentlemen, the See also:comte de la Chatre, to negotiate a See also:loan of two million francs from the bankers Schaumel and Sartorius. Favras took into his confidence certain See also:officers by whom he was betrayed; and, with his wife, he was arrested on See also:Christmas See also:Eve 1789 and imprisoned in the Abbaye. A fortnight later they were separated, Favras being removed to the See also:Chatelet. It was stated in a leaflet circulated throughout Paris that Favras had organized a See also:plot of which the count of Provence was the moving spirit. A force of 30,000 was to be raised, La Fayette and See also:Bailly, the See also:mayor of Paris, were to be assassinated, and Paris was to be starved into sub-See also:mission by cutting off supplies. The count hastened publicly to disavow Favras in a speech delivered before the See also:commune of Paris and in a See also:letter to the National Assembly, although there is no reasonable doubt of his complicity in the plot that did exist. In the course of a trial of nearly two months' duration the witnesses disagreed, and even the editor of the Revolutions de Paris (No. 30) admitted that the See also:evidence was insufficient but an armed See also:attempt of the Royalists on the Chatelet on the 26th of See also:January, which was defeated by La Fayette, roused the suspicious See also:temper of the Parisians to fury, and on the 18th of See also:February 1790, in spite of the courageous See also:defence of his counsel, Favras was condemned to be hanged. He refused to give any See also:information of the alleged plot, and the See also:sentence was carried out on the See also:Place de Greve the next See also:day, to the delight of the populace, since it was the first instance when no distinction in the mode of See also:execution was allowed between See also:noble and commoner. Favras was generally regarded as a See also:martyr to his refusal to implicate the count of Provence, and Madame de Favras was pensioned by Louis XVI. She See also:left See also:France, and her son See also:Charles de Favras served in the See also:Austrian and the See also:Russian armies. He received an See also:allowance from Louis XVIII. Her daughter Caroline married Rudiger, Freiherr von Stillfried Ratenic, in 1805.
The See also:official dossier of Favras's trial for high See also:treason against the nation disappeared from the Chatelet, but its substance is preserved in the papers of a clerk.
End of Article: FAVORINUS (2nd century A.D.)
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