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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ammo'nius (search)
tit. 22), was born of Christian parents. Porphyry asserts (lib. 3, ad v. Christian. ap. Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.19), Eusebius (l.c.) and St. Jerome (Vir. Ill. ยง 55) deny, that he apostatized from the faith. At any rate he combined the study of philosophy with Christianity, and is regarded by those who maintain his apostasy as the founder of the later Platonic School. Among his disciples are mentioned Longinus, Herennius, Plotinus (Amm. Marcell. xxii.), both Origens, and St. Heraclas. He died A. D. 243, at the age of more than 80 years. A life of Aristotle, prefixed to the Commentary of his namesake on the Categories, has been ascribed to him, but it is probably the work of John Philoponus. The Pagan disciples of Ammonius held a kind of philosophical theology. Faith was derived by inward perception; God was threefold in escence, intelligence, (viz. in knowledge of himself) and power (viz. in activity), the two latter notions being inferior to the tirst; the care of the world was entruste
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Arria'nus (search)
Arria'nus 2. A Greek historian, who lived at, or shortly after, the time of Maximin the younger, and wrote a history of this emperor and the Gordiani. It is not improbable that he may be the same as the L. Annius Arrianus, who is mentioned as consul in A. D. 243. (Capitol. Maximin. Jan. 7, Tres Gord. 2.)