a Greek philosopher who embraced Christianity, and was made bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia, where he had his birth; he flourished in the beginning of the fifth century. There is a work of his extant, entitled De Natura Hominis, in which he refutes the fatality of the Stoics and the errors of the Manichaeans, the Apollinarists, and the Eunomians; but he espouses the opinion of Origen concerning the pre-existence of souls (A). This treatise was translated by Valla, and printed in 1535. Another version was afterwards made of it by Ellebodius, and printed in 1665; it is also inserted in the Bibliotheca Patrum, in Greek and Latin. Lastly, another edition was published at Oxford in 1671, folio, with a learned preface, wherein the editor endeavours to prove, from a passage in this book, that

(A) It is much more probable that he and Origen both brought their opinion with them from the schools of philosophy, than that either of them borrowed it from the other. See Metaphysics, Part III, Chap. IV. the circulation of the blood was known to Nemesius; which, however, was since shown to be a mistake by Dr Freind, in his History of Physic.