Marius Victorinus

Victorinus was an African-born Roman rhetorician who became a Christian late in life and wrote the first sustained Latin defence of the Nicene homoousion, using Neoplatonic categories. His Against Arius answers the Arian Candidus; he also wrote the first Latin commentaries on Paul's letters that survive in part, and Trinitarian hymns.

Dates

fl. ca. 355–363 (approximate)

See or city

Rome

Region

Italy

Also known as

Victorinus Afer; Marius Victorinus Afer

Notes

A famous Roman teacher of rhetoric and translator of Plato and Aristotle; Augustine (Conf. 8.2) tells of his conversion about 355 and of the statue set up to him in the Forum. Not to be confused with Victorinus of Pettau.

Works

• Against AriusAdversus Arium · ca. 357–362 · CPL 95 (not yet checked)
• On the Generation of the Divine Word (to Candidus)De generatione divini Verbi · ca. 357–362 · CPL 94 (not yet checked)
• To Justinus the Manichaean, against the Two Principles of the Manichaeans and on the True Flesh of ChristAd Iustinum Manichaeum · ca. 357–362 · CPL 96 (not yet checked)
• On the Words of Scripture: 'There was evening and there was morning, one day'De verbis Scripturae: Factum est vespere et mane dies unus · ca. 357–362 · CPL 97 (not yet checked)
• On Receiving the HomoousionDe homoousio recipiendo · ca. 357–362 · CPL 98 (not yet checked)
• Hymns on the TrinityHymni de Trinitate · ca. 357–362 · CPL 99 (not yet checked)
• Commentary on GalatiansIn epistolam Pauli ad Galatas · ca. 360–363 · CPL 4 (not yet checked)
• Commentary on PhilippiansIn epistolam Pauli ad Philippenses · ca. 360–363 · CPL 4 (not yet checked)
• Commentary on EphesiansIn epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios · ca. 360–363 · CPL 4 (not yet checked)