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Victorinus, at some unknown point, left Africa for Rome ( hence some modern scholars have dubbed him Afer ), probably for a position teaching, and had great success in his career, eventually being promoted to the lowest level of the senatorial order.
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* Victorinus is declared emperor of the Gallic Empire by the legions at Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ), following the murders of his predecessors.
On 7 May 1557 he was appointed professor of New Testament theology at Jena but was soon involved in controversy with his colleague Victorinus Strigel on the synergistic question ( relating to the function of the will in conversion ).
His reign lasted no more than two or three months before Postumus ’ praetorian prefect Victorinus had Marius killed in the middle of 269, most likely at Augusta Treverorum
After engineering the death of Marius, Victorinus was declared emperor by the troops located at Augusta Treverorum in the fall of 269.
Victorinus was murdered at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in early 271 by Attitianus, one of his officers, whose wife Victorinus had supposedly seduced.
Victorinus ' mother, Victoria, located at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, managed to keep control of the political situation after her son ’ s death ; through her influence ( and a large amount of money ), she bribed the army to declare the absent Tetricus emperor.
Aristotle's original Greek text, Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας ( Peri Hermeneias ) was translated into the Latin " De Interpretatione " by Marius Victorinus, at Rome, in the 4th century.
* Martyrs Polyeuctus, Victorinus, and Donatus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
Victorinus had a religious conversion, from being a pagan to a Christian ( c. 355 ) " at an advanced old age ".
Victorinus ' religious conversion from Platonism to Christianity ( c. 355 ), " at an advanced old age " according to Jerome, made a great impression on Augustine of Hippo, as recounted in Book 8 of the latter's Confessions.
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Victorinus and some
Victorinus had previously served as procurator of Galatia, giving him some experience with eastern affairs.
Victorinus ' conversion, even though criticized by some scholars ( e. g. Ernst Benz, and repeated by other ) as purely intellectualist, was undoubtedly sincere, as events connected with the revival of paganism initiated by the last pagan emperor, Julian the Philosopher ( dubbed " Julian the Apostate " by Christians ) came to show.
Victorinus and Africa
Some scholars including Richardson and Czapla consider that chapters xxx ( Bishop John II of Jerusalem ), lxxxvii ( Victorinus ), xciii ( Caerealis of Africa ), and all the end portion ( xcv-ci ), are not authentic.
Victorinus and for
But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.
* Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is assassinated by Attitianus, reportedly for reasons of personal revenge.
Commodus was inaugurated in 183 as consul with Aufidius Victorinus for a colleague and assumed the title Pius.
Now being emperor of the Gauls, Victorinus was soon to be in a precarious position, for the Spanish provinces had deserted the Gallic Empire and declared their loyalty to Claudius, while in southern France, Placidianus had captured Grenoble.
In April 1462 the latter restored the holy crown for 60, 000 ducats and was allowed to retain certain Hungarian counties with the title of king ; in return for which concessions, extorted from Matthias by the necessity of coping with a simultaneous rebellion of the Magyar noble in league with Poděbrady's son Victorinus, the emperor recognized Matthias as the actual sovereign of Hungary.
Given what is known of the chronology of the ‘ Gallic Empire ’ his bid for Empire is most probably associated with the period of confusion following the officers ’ coup against the ‘ Gallic Emperor ’, Victorinus, early in 271.
Since the motive was personal and not political, Victorinus ' mother, Victoria ( or Vitruvia ), was able to continue to hold power after the death of Victorinus and she arranged for his deification and, after considerable payment to the troops, the appointment of Tetricus I as his successor.
Born probably in Greece on the confines of the Eastern and Western Empires or in Poetovio with rather mixed population, due to its military character, Victorinus spoke Greek better than Latin, which explains why, in St. Jerome's opinion, his works written in the latter tongue were more remarkable for their matter than for their style.
Victorinus and Rome
* Aureolus, charged with defending Italy, defeats Victorinus ( co-emperor of Gaul ), is proclaimed emperor by his troops, and begins his march on Rome.
At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.
Other early premillennialists included Pseudo-Barnabas, Papias, Methodius, Lactantius, Commodianus Theophilus, Tertullian, Melito, Hippolytus of Rome, Victorinus of Pettau and various Gnostics groups and the Montanists.
Victorinus resigned his position as official rhetor of the city of Rome, professor of rhetoric, not an orator.
Victorinus and modern
A Bishop of Poetovio ( modern Ptuj in Slovenia ; ) in Pannonia, Victorinus is also known as Victorinus Petavionensis, Poetovionensis or Victorinus of Ptuj.
Victorinus and have
The men who murdered Victorinus seem to have had no political agenda and it is not surprising that there should have been period of confusion after his death.
The ( dubious ) Historia Augusta equally has a short description of Victorinus Junior, allegedly the son of Victorinus, who was appointed emperor by his family the day his father was murdered, and would have been killed immediately afterwards by the troops.
At Clermont he is said to have converted the senator St. Cassius and the pagan priest St. Victorinus, to have sent St. Sirenatus ( Cerneuf ) to Thiers, St. Marius to Salers, Sts.
This matter is obscure, but several interesting theories have been made, including a spectacular and elaborate, though doubtful, one by Pierre Hadot in his work " Porphyry and Victorinus ".
Victorinus and him
Marius ' rule did not last long though, as Victorinus, Postumus ' praetorian prefect, defeated him.
Victorinus and Afer
Gaius Marius Victorinus ( also known as Victorinus Afer, fourth century ) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher.
Until the 17th century he was likewise confused with the Latin rhetorician, Victorinus Afer.
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In the turmoil following the defeat of Valerian, the XIIII Gemina supported usurper Regalianus against Emperor Gallienus ( 260 ), then Gallienus against Postumus of the Gallic empire ( earning the title VI Pia VI Fidelis —" six times faithful, six times loyal "), and, after Gallienus ' death, Gallic Emperor Victorinus ( 269 – 271 ).
It is not clear if she created it or if it was already part of the Aeolic tradition ; according to Marius Victorinus ( Ars grammatica 6. 161 Keil ), it was invented by Alcaeus but then used more frequently by, and so more strongly associated with, Sappho.
* Jonathan J. Armstrong, " Victorinus of Pettau as the Author of the Canon Muratori ," Vigiliae Christianae, 62, 1 ( 2008 ), pp 1 – 34.
The next most frequent are those of Claudius II ( 270 ), especially the posthumous issue with the altar reverse, and Victorinus ( 268-270 ).
* Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus ( 2nd century ), Roman martyrs and saints
Victorinus noted, " Since God is the cause of being, it can be said in a certain sense, that God truly is ( vere ων ), but this expression merely means that being is in God as an effect is in an eminent cause, which contains it though being superior to it.
* Victoria ( Gallic Empire ) ( died 271 ), mother of Gallic Emperor Victorinus
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