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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Justi'nus Ii.
the younger, emperor of the East, from A. D. 565-578, and nephew of the great Justinian. (See the genealogical table prefixed to the life of Justinian I.) His reign is signalized by important and extraordinary events. Justin had infinitely less merit than his cousins Justinus and Justinian, the sons of Germanus, who had distinguished themselves in the field against the Persians, and were universally beloved for the frankness of their character; but he was of a crafty disposition, and while his cousins exposed their lives in the defence of the empire, he prudently remained at Constantinople and courted the aged Justinian.
In order to insinuate himself the better into his uncle's favour, he married Sophia, the niece of the empress Theodora, a beautiful and clever woman, but ambitious, imperious and revengeful.
In the night that Justinian died (13th of November, 565), Justin had retired to his apartments, and was fast asleep, when he was suddenly awakened by a loud knockin
Olympiodo'rus
7. An Aristotelic philosopher.
He himself (p. 37, 6) speaks of Alexandria as his residence, and (p. 12, 6) mentions the comet which appeared in the 281st year of the Diocletian era (A. D. 565), so that the period when he lived is fixed to the latter half of the sixth century after Christ.
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Commentary on the Meteorologica of Aristotle
He is the author of a commentary on the Meteorologica of Aristotle, which is still extant.
His work, like the scholia of the Neo-Platonic philosopher of the same name, is divided into pra/ceis; from which it would seem that the Aristotelic philosophy was taught at Alexandria even after the Neo-Platonic school had become extinct. Like Simplicius, to whom, however, he is inferior, he endeavours to reconcile Plato and Aristotle. Of Proclus he speaks with great admiration, styling him o( *Qei=os ; but his great authority is Ammionius.
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His commentary was published by the sons of Aldus, at Venice, 1551.
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)