Pancrates of Athens

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Pancrates (Greek: Παγκρατης) of Athens, was a Cynic philosopher who lived c. 140 AD. 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: ἀρτοπώλης) but a word-dealer (Greek: λογοπώλης).^[1] Alciphron also mentions a Cynic philosopher of this name in his fictitious letters.^[2]