, sirnamed Trallianus, from Tralles, a city of Lydia, where he was born,
, sirnamed Trallianus, from Tralles, a city
of Lydia, where he was born, was one of the emperor
Adrian’s freedmen, to whom he gave a liberal education,
and lived at least to the eighteenth year of Antoninus Pius,
as appears from his mentioning the consuls of that year.
He appears to have been a man of great talents, and the
contemporary of Epictetus, Florus, Arrian, and other eminent men who adorned the court of Adrian. Of his works,
however, we have nothing left but fragments. The titles of
them were an “History of the Olympiads;
” “A Treatise
of long-lived Persons;
” and another of “Wonderful Things;
”
the short and broken remains of which Xylander translated
into Latin, and published at Basil in 1568, with the Greek
and with notes. Meursius gave a new edition of them,
with his notes at Leyden, in 1622. The titles of part of
the rest of Phlegon’s writings are preserved by Suidas; but
the “History of Adrian,
” published under Phlegon' s name,
was written by Adrian himself.