Μάξιμος

Maximus

Translated by Filipe Delfim Santos28 Nov 1999Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 32 words

Translation

From Epirus or Byzantium, philosopher, teacher of Julian Caesar the Apostate.1 He wrote On Insoluble Contradictions, On Forecasts, On Numbers, a commentary on Aristotle,2 and other works [addressed] to the same Julian.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μάξιμος, Ἠπειρώτης ἢ Βυζάντιος, φιλόσοφος, διδάσκαλος Ἰουλιανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ Παραβάτου. ἔγραψε Περὶ ἀλύτων ἀντιθέσεων, Περὶ καταρχῶν, Περὶ ἀριθμῶν, ὑπόμνημα εἰς Ἀριστοτέλην, καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰουλιανόν.

Betacode
*ma/cimos, *)hpeirw/ths h)\ *buza/ntios, filo/sofos, dida/skalos *)ioulianou= *kai/saros tou= *paraba/tou. e)/graye *peri\ a)lu/twn a)ntiqe/sewn, *peri\ katarxw=n, *peri\ a)riqmw=n, u(po/mnhma ei)s *)aristote/lhn, kai\ a)/lla tina\ pro\s to\n au)to\n *)iouliano/n. 

Notes (2)

  1. See generally OCD(4) p.916, under Maximus(2) and the Ephesian Maximus(3) -- whom this entry conflates.
  2. 1Emperor Julian the Apostate: iota 437. ↩
  3. 2Other sources for Maximus' commentaries on Aristotle: Themistius, Contra Maximum passim; Ammonius, On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.1.108 (where reference is made to Julian's lost work Peri ton trion schematon - Suda iota 437); Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 1.13-16 and On Aristotle's Physics 4.5.138.6-10; Ibn al-Nadim, Kitab al-Fihrist 7.1. ↩

References


F. Delfim-Santos, Byzantine Philosophy and Power: Maximus of Ephesus, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Aut. Madrid, 1993.

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Revision history7 revisions · last 17 May 2016
  1. codings etc. — David Whitehead
  2. updated a ref — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  5. added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Revised — William Hutton
  7. Revised — William Hutton
  8. Translated — Filipe Delfim Santos

Cite this entry

“Maximus.” Suda On Line. Tr. Filipe Delfim Santos. 28 November 1999. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/mu/174>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/mu/174>.

Translation by Filipe Delfim Santos for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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