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Gaius Marius Victorinus
Also known as Gaius Marius Victorinus
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- born. 290high · Wikidata P569
- died. 364high · Wikidata P570
Roman rhetor whose late conversion (c. 355) Augustine recounts; he wrote Neoplatonic-inflected anti-Arian treatises.
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Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher. Victorinus was African by birth and experienced the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II. He is also known for translating two of Aristotle's books from ancient Greek into Latin: the Categories and On Interpretation. Victorinus had a religious conversion, from being a pagan to a Christian, "at an advanced old age", which has been described in Augustine's Confessions.
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