a cruel persecutor of the Christians and a violent promoter of the persecution under Diocletian, flourished in 302. He wrote some books against the Christian religion; in which he pretends some inconsistencies in the Holy Scriptures, and compares the miracles of Apollonius Tyaneus to those of our Saviour. He was refuted by Lactantius and Eusebius. The remains of his works were collected into one volume octavo, by Bishop Pearson; and published in 1654, with a learned dissertation prefixed to the work.

a Platonic philosopher of the fifth century, taught at Alexandria, and was admired for his eloquence. He wrote seven books upon Providence and Fate; and dedicated them to the philosopher Olympiodorus, who by his embassies did the Romans great service under the emperors Honorius and Theodosius the younger. But these books are lost, and we only know them by the extracts in Photius. He wrote also a Commentary upon the golden verses of Pythagoras; which is still extant, and has been several times published with those verses.