Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Victorīnus Afer, Gaius Marius

A scholar of African birth who taught rhetoric at Rome in the middle of the fourth century, with so much reputation that his statue was erected in the Forum of Trajan. In his old age he embraced Christianity; and when the edict of Julian prohibiting Christians from giving instruction in polite literature was promulgated, Victorinus chose to shut up his school rather than deny his religion. Besides his commentaries on the Scriptures, and other theological works, many of which are extant, Victorinus wrote: (a) Commentarius or Expositio in Ciceronis Libros de Inventione, the best edition of which is in the fifth volume of Orelli's edition of Cicero; (b) Ars Grammatica de Orthographia et Ratione Metrorum, a complete and voluminous treatise upon metres, in four books, printed in Keil's Grammatici Latini, vi. 1.