Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Lives of Illustrious Men/Gennadius/Victorinus the rhetorician

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter LXI.

Victorinus,^[1] a rhetorician of Marseilles, wrote to his son Etherius, a commentary On Genesis, commenting, that is, from the beginning of the book to the death of the patriarch Abraham, and published four^[2] books in verse, words which have a savour of piety indeed, but, in that he was a man busied with secular literature and quite untrained in the Divine Scriptures, they are of slight weight, so far as ideas are concerned.

He died in the reign of Theodosius and Valentinianus.

Footnotes

1. Claudius Marius Victor (Victorius or Victorinus) of Marseilles died 445.
2. fourA T 31 a e; three 25 30.