Pancrates of Athens explained

Pancrates (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Παγκράτης; fl. c. 140 AD) of Athens, was a Cynic philosopher.^[1] Philostratus relates, that when the celebrated sophist Lollianus was in danger of being stoned by the Athenians in a tumult about bread, Pancrates quieted the mob by exclaiming that Lollianus was not a "bread-dealer" (Greek, Modern (1453-);: ἀρτοπώλης) but a "word-dealer" (Greek, Modern (1453-);: λογοπώλης).^[2] Alciphron also mentions a Cynic philosopher of this name in his fictitious letters.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 5. Pancrates. William. Smith. William Smith (lexicographer). III. Boston. Little, Brown & Comp.. 1867. 110.
2. Philostratus, Vitae Sophistarum, 1.23.
3. Alciphron, Epistles, iii. 55.