Apollonius of Tyana
Neo-Pythagorean philosopher and traveler. Whether magician or philosopher, he entered Persia, crossed the Caucasus, penetrated India, and reached the Brahmans.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Whether magician or philosopher; entered Persia, crossed the Caucasus, penetrated India, reached the Brahmans to hear Hiarchas; returned through many lands to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists
"Apollonius, whether he was a magician, as the common people say, or a philosopher, as the Pythagoreans hold"