42. Priscus was a native of Panium in Thrace and deserved by
his eloquence an honourable place among the sophists of the
age. His Byzantine history, which related to his own times,
was comprised in seven books. See Fabricius Biblioth. Graec.
tom. vi. p. 235, 236. Notwithstanding the charitable
judgment of the critics, I suspect that Priscus was a Pagan.