Difference between revisions of "Victorinus"

<p> bishop [[Of Pettau]]  (Petavionensis), a town in ancient Pannonia, not of Poitiers, as Baromius states, lived about A.D. 290, and was an orator before he became a bishop. He was of Greek extraction, and was better acquainted with the [[Grecian]] than the Latin tongue. Of his works, a fragment, De Fabrica Mundi, was published by [[Cave]] (see below). Jerome says that Victorinus wrote commentaries on most of the books of the Old Test., and he is also credited with the authorship of a commentary on the Apocalypse. He died, according to the Roman martyrology, a martyr's death, under Diocletian, about 303. See Dupin, Nouvelle Bibl. des Auteurs Ecclis. (Paris, 1693), 1, 194.; Cave, Scriptorum Eccles. Hist. Lit. (Genev. 1693), p. 73 sq.; Max. Bibl. Vet. Patr. etc. (Lugd. 1677), vol. 3, where the commentary on the [[Apocalypse]] occurs, 4p. 414 sq.; Herzog, Real- Encyklop. s.v. </p>