 After a break with Porphyry that seems impossible to date with precision, Iamblichus settled in Syria. Although he is known to have owned an estate in Antioch’s suburb of Daphne, it is now accepted that he settled in Apamea, where Plotinus’ first disciple Amelius had previously moved. There, welcomed by a wealthy notable, Sopater, he founded a flourishing school: we know about a dozen of his students (see below,  Section 2.4),  among whom the most conspicuous are Sopater himself, who died because of a plot at Constantine’s court; Aedesius, who moved the school to Pergamon; and Dexippus, the only disciple of whom we still have a philosophical work (a commentary on Aristotle’s Categories). Apart from Eunapius, evidence about Iamblichus’ whereabouts in Apamea is to be found mainly in Libanius (e.g. Ep. 1389.13–14) and, above all, in the letters by an anonymous Syrian sophist whose correspondence with Iamblichus was preserved among the genuine letters of the emperor Julian (e.g. Pseudo-Julian, Ep. 78 and 79 Wright).