Since a prefect had to accompany the guard, Victorinus was the clear choice.

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.

Victorinus differentiated between the Logos interior to God and the Logos related to the world by creation and salvation.

* Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is assassinated by Attitianus, reportedly for reasons of personal revenge.

* Aureolus, charged with defending Italy, defeats Victorinus ( co-emperor of Gaul ), is proclaimed emperor by his troops, and begins his march on Rome.

* Victorinus is declared emperor of the Gallic Empire by the legions at Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ), following the murders of his predecessors.

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.

Victorinus is murdered and his soldiers proclaim Tetricus I emperor

The representation is not realistic, but standardized and stereotypical and is very similar to that of the later coins of the " Gallic Emperor " Victorinus ( 269-271 AD ) and the earliest of Tetricus I, the last " Gallic Emperor " ( 271-274 ).

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.

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 most likely interpretation of the evidence of the coins is that Domitianus was involved in the officer coup that overthrew Victorinus and managed to secure temporary control of one of the ' Gallic ' mints.

A second possibility is that he was defeated by Placidianus, a general loyal to Aurelian who had been stationed to guard the lower Rhone valley during Victorinus ' assault on Autun in 270.

Victorinus is listed among the Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta.

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.

Saint Severinus of Noricum is not to be confused with Severinus of Septempeda, the brother of Saint Victorinus of Camerino, and a bishop of Naples, whose feast day is celebrated on the same day, January 8.

Victorinus is the recorded name of a vicarius of Roman Britain probably serving between 395 and 406.

Victorinus wrote a brief treatise De Definitionibus, that is, On Definition, which lists and discusses the various types of definitions utilized by rhetoricians and philosopher, recommending the " substantial definitions " proferred by the latter ( prior to the late 19th century this work was ascribed to Boethius.

Victorinus ' manual of prosody, in four books, taken almost literally from the work of Aelius Aphthonius, is extant.

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 ".

A Bishop of Poetovio ( modern Ptuj in Slovenia ; ) in Pannonia, Victorinus is also known as Victorinus Petavionensis, Poetovionensis or Victorinus of Ptuj.

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.

Subsequently Victorinus came to power, being recognized as Emperor in northern Gaul and Britannia, but not in Hispania.

Victorinus had a religious conversion, from being a pagan to a Christian ( c. 355 ) " at an advanced old age ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

* 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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

* Victoria ( Gallic Empire ) ( died 271 ), mother of Gallic Emperor Victorinus

He wrote a metrical handbook De Metris, in four books, which was added to the Ars Grammatica of Gaius Marius Victorinus sometime before 400, but not by Victorinus himself.

This forced Victorinus to march south and besiege it, where it fell after seven months, after which Victorinus ’ troops plundered and destroyed the city.

St. Augustine was heavily influenced by Platonism as well, which he encountered through the Latin translations of Marius Victorinus of the works of Porphyry and / or Plotinus.

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.

Marius ' rule did not last long though, as Victorinus, Postumus ' praetorian prefect, defeated him.

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.