Antoninus (philosopher)

Antoninus (

; but he is said to have been able to see that its end was near at hand, and he predicted that after his death all the splendid temples of the gods would be changed into tombs:

He foretold to all his followers that after his death the temple would cease to be, and even the great and holy temples of Serapis would pass into formless darkness and be transformed, and that a fabulous and unseemly gloom would hold sway over the fairest things on earth. To all these prophecies time bore witness, and in the end his prediction gained the force of an oracle.

References

• Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists
• Edward Jay Watts, (2006), City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, pages 188–190. University of California Press.