Likewise we find mention of monographs of Theophrastus on the early Greek philosophers Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus, Diogenes of Apollonia, Democritus, which were made use of by Simplicius ; and also on Xenocrates, against the Academics, and a sketch of the political doctrine of Plato.

John Talaia refused to subscribe to it and retired to Rome ( 482-483 ), where his cause was taken up with great vigour by letters of Pope Simplicius urging Acacius to check the progress of heresy elsewhere and at Alexandria.

Odoacer made few changes in the administration in Rome, firmly in the hands of its Bishop, St. Simplicius.

Seven philosophers, among whom were Simplicius, Eulamius, Priscian, and others, with Damascius, the last president of the Platonist school in Athens at their head, resolved to seek protection at the court of the famous Persian king Chosroes, who had succeeded to the throne in 531.

Simplicius was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae, and Damascius, and was consequently one of the last members of the Neoplatonist school.

The last " Greek " philosophers of the revived Akademia in the 6th century were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture ( see koine ): Five of the seven Akademia philosophers mentioned by Agathias were Syriac in their cultural origin: Hermias and Diogenes ( both from Phoenicia ), Isidorus of Gaza, Damascius of Syria, Iamblichus of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia.

One of the last leading figures of this group was Simplicius, a pupil of Damascius, the last head of the Athenian school.

One of the last leading figures of this group was Simplicius, a pupil of Damascius, the last head of the Athenian school.

The last philosophers in classical antiquity to comment on Aristotle were Simplicius and Boethius in the 6th century.

The last " Greek " philosophers of the revived Academy in the 6th century were drawn from various parts of the Hellenistic cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture ( see koine ): Five of the seven Academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias were Syriac in their cultural origin: Hermias and Diogenes ( both from Phoenicia ), Isidorus of Gaza, Damascius of Syria, Iamblichus of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia.

Simplicius, writing in the 6th century AD, mentions that a statue of Cleanthes was still visible at Assos, which had been erected by the Roman Senate.

* One of the group of Roman martyrs and saints Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix

The earliest mention in an authentic historical authority of Saint Bibiana ( Viviana, Vivian, or Vibiana ), a Roman Virgin and Martyr, occurs in the " Liber Pontificalis ,", where, in the biography of Pope Simplicius ( 468 – 483 ), it is stated that this pope " consecrated a basilica of the holy martyr Bibiana, which contained her body, near the ' palatium Licinianum ' " ( ed.

* Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus ( 2nd century ), Roman martyrs and saints

* Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix ( d 302 or 303 AD ), Roman martyrs and saints

Simplicius of Cilicia mentions that Alexander provided commentary on the quadrature of the lunes, and the corresponding problem of squaring the circle.

He also taught Asclepius of Tralles, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius.

Anaxagoras wrote a book of philosophy, but only fragments of the first part of this have survived, through preservation in work of Simplicius of Cilicia in the sixth century AD.

These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

He somehow became crippled, and although Origen recounts a story that his leg was deliberately broken by his master, Simplicius states he had been lame from childhood.

In the 6th century, the Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius, who was persecuted for his pagan beliefs during the reign of Justinian, wrote an extant commentary on the Enchiridion.

At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.

In the 6th century, Simplicius wrote a commentary upon it, and two Christian writers, Nilus and an anonymous author wrote paraphrases of it, adapted for Christians, in the first half of the 5th century.

The Greek original, with the commentary of Simplicius, appeared first at Venice, 1528.

* George Stanhope, 1694, Epictetus his Morals, with Simplicius his Comment.

Grimmelshausen's adventures of the young and naïve Simplicissimus, in the eponymous book Simplicius Simplicissimus, became the most famous novel of the Baroque period.

This famous aphorism used to characterize Heraclitus ' thought comes from Simplicius, a neoplatonist, and from Plato's Cratylus.

For an expanded account of Zeno's arguments as presented by Aristotle, see Simplicius ' commentary On Aristotle's Physics.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

* February 28 – Pope Hilarius dies at Rome after a 6½-year reign and is succeeded by Simplicius as the 47th pope.

* March 10 – Pope Simplicius dies at Rome after a 15-year reign and is succeeded by Felix III as the 48th pope.

A general idea of the content of On Speeds can be gleaned from Aristotle's Metaphysics XII, 8, and a commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia ( 6th century CE ) on De caelo, another work by Aristotle.

Pope Saint Simplicius was Pope from 468 AD to 10 March 483 AD.

Simplicius is credited for the construction of a church named in memory of the virgin and martyr St. Bibiana.

da: Pave Simplicius 1.

He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope Simplicius in 483.

Hume's anti-rationalism has been very influential, and defended in contemporary philosophy of action by neo-Humeans such as Michael Smith and Simon Blackburn.

The 18th and 19th-century British philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill defended the ethical theory of utilitarianism, according to which we should perform whichever action maximizes the aggregate good.

Denounced by other Bolshevik leaders for exceeding his instructions and exposing Bolshevist Russia to the threat of invasion, Trotsky subsequently defended his action on the grounds that the Bolshevik leaders had originally entered the peace talks in the hope of exposing their enemies ' territorial ambitions and rousing the workers of central Europe to revolution in defense of Russia's new workers ' state.

A classic fast torpedo boat action was the Channel Dash in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs.

* He defended CBS in the action brought by General William Westmoreland.

In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

The men defended the low wall in front of the church, using their rifles as clubs and relying on knives, as the action was too furious to allow reloading.

" Krens defended the action as consistent with the museum's principles, including expanding its international collection and building its " postwar collection to the strength of our pre-war holdings " and pointed out that such sales are a regular practice by museums.

Yet the cost was high: the allied casualty figures were approximately double that of the enemy ( sources vary ), leading Marlborough to admit – " The French have defended themselves better in this action than in any battle I've seen.

Hillery however defended his action by saying that it was important to kill off the story for the good of the presidency, rather than allow the rumour to circulate and be accepted as " fact " in the absence of a denial.

This time Mark Lane defended the Liberty Lobby against Hunt's action.

She vehemently defended Colorado's Amendment 2 in 1992, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action from recognizing homosexual citizens as a Protected class, all the way to the US Supreme Court, where it was struck down as unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans.

: I shall relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies ; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage, rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers ; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together ; how, by wise and resolute good faith, was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.

He defended his action by saying that rumours were sweeping the party that he could be ' bought ' ( bribed ) to support efforts to depose Haughey ; he claimed he used the equipment to record any attempts made to offer bribes.

Chamberlain's salute to the Confederate soldiers was unpopular with many in the North, but he defended his action in his memoirs, The Passing of the Armies.

He defended his affirmative action policies, saying they were not discriminatory but " a temporary measure to correct ... imbalances " and close the economic gap between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians.

Thus, while smaller in terms of total number of planes, the FAE of January 1995 felt qualitatively capable of facing the FAP on more or less equal terms, in striking contrast to the situation during the crisis of 1981, where except for a small number of missions, the FAE had been kept on the ground armed and ready for immediate action, to be committed only in case of a full-fledged war, their positions in the Cordillera del Cóndor was well defended due to tactically placed SAMs by the FAE, and units armed with British-made Blowpipe and Russian-made SA-16 MANPADs, nevertheless, such defences didn ´ t stop the continuous raids of the Peruvian Air Force, which lost several aircraft in the effort.

In the first, he defended the action of Lord Ellenborough, who, as President of the Board of Control, had not only censured Lord Canning for a proclamation issued by him as Governor-General of India but had made public the despatch in which the censure was conveyed.

Beauprez defended the action as " whistleblowing ," citing a pattern of lenient plea bargains during Ritter's term as district attorney.

Ellman is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, in March 2004 she defended Israeli assassination of Sheikh Yasin, the 66 year old spiritual leader of Hamas and told Parliament that “ Israel ’ s action in killing Sheikh Yasin was a legitimate response to an extraordinary situation ”.

Turner defended this action as being a friendly gesture, not recognizing that it was seen by many women as being condescending.

Libertarian thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as " required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing ," claiming that it " is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action ( or to liberty of conduct ), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended.

He won three major victories at Vinh Yen, Mao khé and Yen Cu Ha and defended successfully the north of the country against the Viet Minh but his only son, Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, was killed in action during the war at the Battle for Nam Dinh.

In response, Wellesley politely rebuffed Munro's accusations and defended his action as necessary because he had received and acted upon incorrect intelligence regarding the Maratha position.