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Marius Victorinus, a contemporary of St. Ambrose and one who had considerable influence on St. Augustine—he has been styled “an Augustine before Augustine”—is an important fourth-century Neoplatonist. Before his conversion to Christianity Marius Victorinus wrote commentaries on works of Cicero and translated Aristotle’s tracts on logic and some Neoplatonic books into Latin. After his conversion,...

theological and exegetical treatises; his increased leisure was devoted to theological writings. (3) By translating the “books of the Platonists,”11 which came into Augustine’s hands around 386, Victorinus helped Augustine to understand, to some extent, spiritual reality and the nature of evil, thereby removing an intellectual block to his believing what the God of Scripture was teaching. Victorinus also translated and wrote a commentary on Porphyry’s Isagogē (“Introduction”) to Aristotle’s logic,
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