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THEMISTIUS (317--?387) , named euOwli (" eloquent "), statesman, rhetorician and philosopher, was born in Paphlagonia
Constantinople , where, apart from a short sojourn in Rome, he resided during the rest of his life. Though a pagan
Constantinople in 384 on the nomination of Theodosius. His paraphrases of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Physics and De Anima are valuable; but the orations in which he panegyrizes successive emperors, comparing them to Plato's " true philosopher," and even to the " idea " itself, are servile and unworthy. Against this, however, should be set the description given by Boetius, " disertissimus scriptor ac lucidus, et omnia ad facilitalem intelligentiae revocans," and that of Gregory Nazianzenwith whom Themistius corresponded(3ao-tMw Xt ymv. Themistius's paraphrases of the De Coelo and of book A of the Metaphysics have reached us only through Hebrew versions. In philosophy Themistius was an eclectic. He held that Plato and Aristotle were in substantial agreement, that God has made men free to adopt the mode of worship they prefer, and that Christianity and Hellenism were merely two forms of the one universal religion.The first edition of Themistius's works (Venice, 1534) included the paraphrases and eight of the orations. Nineteen orations were known to Petavius, whose editions appeared in 1613 and 1618; Hardouin (Paris, 1684) gives thirty-three. Another oration was discovered by Angelo Mai, and published at Milan in 1816. The most recent
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