[68] [Footnote 67: Hadrian afterwards made a very equitable regulation, which divided all treasure-trove between the right of property and that of discovery.Hist.August.p.

9.] [Footnote 68: Philostrat.

in Vit.Sophist.l.ii.p.

548.] The ablest preceptors of Greece and Asia had been invited by liberal rewards to direct the education of young Herod.

Their pupil soon became a celebrated orator, according to the useless rhetoric of that age, which, confining itself to the schools, disdained to visit either the Forum or the Senate.
He was honored with the consulship at Rome: but the greatest part of his life was spent in a philosophic retirement at Athens, and his adjacent villas; perpetually surrounded by sophists, who acknowledged, without reluctance, the superiority of a rich and generous rival.