According to Philostratus ' Life, en route to the Far East, Apollonius reached Hierapolis Bambyce ( Manbij ) in Syria ( not Nineveh, as some scholars believed ), where he met Damis, a native of that city who became his lifelong companion.

According to Philostratus, empusae ran and hid, uttering a high-pitched scream, at the sound of insults.

According to the statement of Philostratus, on which little reliance can be placed, he delivered his lecture on virtue and vice in Thebes and Sparta also.

According to Pappus, " Apollonius, having completed Euclid's four books of conics and added four others, handed down eight volumes of conics.

According to Lampridius, the emperor Alexander Severus ( 222 – 235 ), who was not a Christian, had kept a domestic chapel for the veneration of images of deified emperors, of portraits of his ancestors, and of Christ, Apollonius, Orpheus and Abraham.

According to sources, Theseus also was one of the Argonauts, although Apollonius of Rhodes states in the Argonautica that Theseus was still in the underworld at this time.

According to the Historia Augusta he abstained from destroying the city after having a vision of Apollonius admonishing him to spare the innocent citizens.

Medieval alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan's Book of Stones According to the Opinion of Balīnās contains an exposition and analysis of views expressed in Arabic occult works attributed to Apollonius.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes, he was a son of Agenor, but the Bibliotheca says that other authors named his father as Poseidon.

According to Pindar's ninth Pythian Ode and Apollonius ' Argonautica ( II. 522ff ), Cyrene despised spinning and other womanly arts and instead spent her days hunting, but, in a prophecy he put in the mouth of the wise centaur Chiron, Apollo would spirit her to Libya and make her the foundress of a great city, Cyrene, in a fertile coastal plain.

According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias he was the first king ever to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias ' times.

According to Apollonius Rhodius, Iris turned back the Argonauts Zetes and Calais who had pursued the Harpies to the Strophades (' Islands of Turning ').

According to Vita A, he was a famous teacher in Rhodes, but it may have confused him with yet another Apollonius ( Apollonius the Effeminate ) who taught rhetoric there.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes and Ovid, amber originated from the tears of the Heliades, encased in poplars as dryads, shed when their brother, Phaeton, died and fell from the sky, struck by Zeus ' thunderbolt, and tumbled into the Eridanos, where " to this very day the marsh exhales a heavy vapour which rises from his smouldering wound ; no bird can stretch out its fragile wings to fly over that water, but in mid-flight it falls dead in the flames ;" " along the green banks of the river Eridanos ," Cygnus mourned him — Ovid told — and was transformed into a swan.

According to Josephus, in Against Apion, Apollonius Molon slandered the Jews.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes, the cave where Macris once lived was later the marriage chamber for Jason and Medea, and the marriage was consummated there on the Golden Fleece.

According to Apollonius Rhodius, the figurehead of Jason's ship, the Argo, was built of oak from the sacred grove at Dodona and could speak the language of birds.

According to the 4th-century report of Pappus of Alexandria, Apollonius ' own book on this problem — entitled (, " Tangencies "; Latin: De tactionibus, De contactibus )— followed a similar progressive approach.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.

According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the military leader of Panama later convicted on drug charges, whom he personally met.

According to Suetonius, the people of Rome met the news of Domitian's death with indifference, but the army was much grieved, calling for his deification immediately after the assassination, and in several provinces rioting.

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

According to Gettier, there are certain circumstances in which one does not have knowledge, even when all of the above conditions are met.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

According to the regulation in force in 2010 this obligation has to be met within three months after the start of its activities in Spain.

According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with the Kublai Khan.

According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who had met Weber during his time at the University of Vienna,

According to one source, when they first met, bin Saud declared:

According to Ağca's later testimony, he met with three accomplices in Rome, one a fellow Turk and the other two Bulgarians.

" According to the latter, skepticism is treated as a problem to be solved, or challenge to be met, or threat to be parried ; skepticism's value on this view, insofar as it is deemed to have one, accrues from its role as a foil contrastively illuminating what is required for knowledge and justified belief.

According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met:

According to Lee's wife Linda, Lee met producer Raymond Chow at 2 pm at home to discuss the making of the film Game of Death.

According to Sammy Davis who met him there, Nuvolari showed a great sense for dark humour and seemed to enjoy situations when everything went wrong.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

According to Wright biographer Addison Gayle, just a few months later Wright answered questions at the American embassy in Paris about people he had met in the Communist Party who were at this point being prosecuted under the Smith Act.

According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves ( born March 21, 1986 ), at the premiere of Pale Rider.

(...) The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene ..." According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly " several years earlier " and according to The Sunday Times, " American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia ".

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

According to Herodotus and Plutarch, he met with Croesus and gave the Lydian king advice, which however Croesus failed to appreciate until it was too late.

According to Michael Caine, he met Elton John and was discussing musical tastes, when Caine claimed that he had been creating chillout mix tapes as an amateur for years.