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Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
In 355 he was made a senator ; and the letter is still extant, in which Constantius recommends him to the senate, and speaks in the highest terms both of Themistius himself and of his father.
In 358 – 359, Themistius served as proconsul of Constantinople in 358 ; he was the last to hold that office, before the position was elevated to the status of urban prefect.
Constantius died in 361 ; but Themistius, as a philosopher and non-Christian, naturally retained the favour of Julian, who spoke of him as the worthy senator of the whole world, and as the first philosopher of his age.
The Suda states that Julian made Themistius prefect of Constantinople ; but this is disproved by the speech delivered by Themistius, when he was really appointed to that office under Theodosius.
Nothing is known about Themistius after this time ; and he may have died around 390.
The philosophical works of Themistius must have been very voluminous ; for Photius tells us that he wrote commentaries on all the books of Aristotle, besides useful abstracts of the Posterior Analytics, the books On the Soul, and the Physics, and that there were works of his on Plato ; " and, in a word, he is a lover and eager student of philosophy.
( 2003 ) " Themistius ", in: Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum ; vol.
His first edition of the works of Synesius appeared in 1612, undertaken ten years earlier at the advice of Casaubon ( Synesii episcopi Cyrenensis opera, new ed., 1633 ); in 1613 and 1614 the discourses of Themistius and Julian ( new ed., 1630 ); in 1616 the Breviarium historicum Nicephori ; then, after some poetical and oratorical works, an edition of Epiphanius in two volumes ( 1622 ; new ed., 1632 ), which had been undertaken at the advice of Jacques Gretser, S. J., and was originally intended only as a revised translation of Janus Cornarius.

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In replacing Constantius's political and civil appointees, Julian drew heavily from the intellectual and professional classes, or kept reliable holdovers, such as the rhetorician Themistius.
Themistius ( oratio 15, 190-1 ), who likewise describes Athanaric as a supplicant and a refugee.
Gersonides and his father were avid students of the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle, Empedocles, Galen, Hippocrates, Homer, Plato, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Themistius, Theophrastus, Ali ibn Abbas al-Magusi, Ali ibn Ridwan, Averroes, Avicenna, Qusta ibn Luqa, Al-Farabi, Al-Fergani, Chonain, Isaac Israeli, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Zuhr, Isaac Alfasi, and Maimonides.
Letters to Themistius, To the Senate and People of Athens, To a Priest.
His first published work was an edition of Themistius ( 1684 ), which included no fewer than thirteen new orations.
He was the son of Eugenius, who was also a distinguished philosopher, and who is more than once mentioned in the orations of Themistius.
Themistius was instructed by his father in philosophy, and devoted himself chiefly to Aristotle, though he also studied Pythagoreanism and Platonism.
He first met with Constantius II when the emperor visited Ancyra in Galatia in the eleventh year of his reign, 347, on which occasion Themistius delivered the first of his extant orations, Peri Philanthropias.
We also possess the oration of thanks which Themistius addressed to the senate of Constantinople early in 356, in reply to the emperor's letter.
Shortly before the death of Julian in 363, Themistius delivered an oration in honour of him, which is no longer extant, but which is referred to at some length by Libanius, in a letter to Themistius.
It was also while Valens was in Syria, that Themistius addressed to him an oration by which he persuaded him to cease from his persecution of the Catholic party.

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The orations of Themistius, extant in the time of Photius ( 9th century ), were thirty-six in number.

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Themistius reports that the emperor Titus was his lover ().
In addition to these orations, which prove that the orator was in high favour with the emperor, we have the testimony of Themistius himself to his influence with Valens.
So great was the confidence placed in him by Theodosius, that, though Themistius was not a Christian, the emperor, when departing for the West to oppose Magnus Maximus, entrusted his son Arcadius to the tutorship of the philosopher, 387-388.
In philosophy Themistius was an eclectic.
Their founder was Themistius, a deacon in Alexandria in the 6th century.
Themistius reported of Pap's arrival at Valens ' court in Marcianopolis where the Emperor was wintering.

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