Apollonius of Tyana, a Pythagorean philosopher, who, having become acquainted with some sort of Brahminism, professed to have a divine mission, and, it is said, a power to work miracles; was worshipped after his death, and has been compared to Christ; (d. 97).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Apollonius of Rhodes * Apol`los