According to custom, Epiphanius dismissed the "uninitiated and profane" (a cue to Christians to leave) before reciting a hymn to Dionysus.
[5] According to the Suda, Epiphanius taught rhetoric at Petra and Athens, where he succeeded Julian.
[2] Although Libanius intended to study under him, some pupils of Diophantus the Arab forced him to join their master instead.
[8] Eunapius describes Epiphanius as skilled in the analysis of questions but weak in discourse.
[9] He seems to have specialised in issue-theory (the framing of questions) and some fragments on this topic may be from his otherwise lost work On the Similarity and Difference of the Issues.