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Victorinus Afer, Caius Marius

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Victorinus Afer, Caius Marius (or Victorinus Afer, Fabius Marius) (4th cent.), rhetor and theologian. A native of Africa, he taught in Rome. He became a Christian, resigned his rhetorship in 362 (an event which excited comment and influenced St Augustine), and wrote theological works against the Arians. The obscurity of his writing is largely due to the fact that he was translating philosophical Greek into Latin in an attempt to utilize a form of 4th-cent. Neoplatonic metaphysics to elucidate and defend the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity.

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Victorinus

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Victorinus (Caius Marius Victorinus Afer) , fl. 361, Roman grammarian, b. Africa. He became renowned as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome and as an advocate of Neoplatonism. Becoming a Christian in his later life, he was forbidden to teach by Emperor Julian. His works include a book on definitions, a treatise on Cicero's De inventione, an unoriginal grammar, several tracts against Arianism, and some Pauline commentaries. Some hymns and several other treatises have been attributed to him.

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