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Marinus

NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) PALESTINE
450 - 500
Marinus (Marinos), of Flavia Neapolis, in Palestine, a philosopher and rhetorician, was the pupil and successor of Proclus, respecting whose life he wrote a work, which is still extant; he also wrote some other philosophical works (Suid. s. v.). An epigram of his, on his own life of Proclus, is preserved in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 446; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 153, vol. xiii. p. 915). Proclus died A. D. 485; Marinus, therefore, lived under the emperors Zeno and Anastasius. The publication of his life of Proclus is fixed by internal evidence to the year of Proclus's death; for he mentions an eclipse which will happen when the first year after that event shall have been completed (p. 29; Clinton, Fast. Roam. sub an.). Marines' life of Proclus was first published with the works of Marcus Antoninus, Tigur. 1559, 8vo., reprinted Lugd. Bat. 1626, l2mo.; next with the work of Proclus on Plato's theology, Hamburg, 1618, fol.: the first separate edition was that of Fabricius, with valuable Prolegomena, Hamburg, 1700, 4to., reprinted Lund. 1703, 8vo. Boissonade has re-edited the work, with a much improved text, and valuable notes of his own, in addition to the Prolegomena and notes of Fabricius, Lips. 1814, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 370; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 319, ed. Westermann.)

This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

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