Oenomaus of Gadara (Ancient Greek: Οἰνόμαος ὁ Γαδαρεύς, Oinómaos ho Gadareús; fl.
He is listed in the Chronicle of Jerome as flourishing in the 224th Olympiad (117 to 121 AD): "Plutarch of Chaeronea, Sextus, Agathobulus and Oenomaus are considered notable philosophers.
"[4] It has been suggested that Oenomaus is identical to the philosopher Abnimos ha-Gardi, who is mentioned several times in the Talmud and Midrash as the pagan friend of Rabbi Meir.
And while they believed you trustworthy, you were sure that they were fools; and that the present opportunity was convenient for drawing on the simpletons, and driving them headlong, not only to the schools of sophistry at Delphi and Dodona, but also to the seats of divination by barley and by wheat-flour, and to the ventriloquists.
[11]His scorn culminates in an attack on the quackery which he sees behind the pronouncements: And it seems to me that you are no better than the so-called marvel-mongers, nay not even than the rest of the quacks and sophists.