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St Jerome, NPNF II.3; with Gennadius’ continuation
Jerome, 101. Victorinus the rhetorician
Victorinus,1 an African by birth, taught rhetoric at Rome under the emperor Constantius and in extreme old age, yielding himself to faith in Christ wrote books against Arius, written in dialectic style and very obscure language, books which can only be understood by the learned. He also wrote Commentaries on the Epistles.
Notes
- Caius or Fabius Marius Victorinus, died about 370.