ARRIAN, a famous philosopher and historian under the emperor Hadrian and the two Antonines, was born at Nicomedia in Bithynia. His great learning and eloquence procured him the title of The second Xenophon; and raised him to the most considerable dignities at Rome, even the consulship itself. We have four books of his Dissertations upon Epictetus, whole scholar he had been; and his History of Alexander the Great, in seven books, is greatly admired by the best judges.