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Anatolius and Minor Writers.
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Anatolius of Alexandria.
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Translator’s Biographical
Notice.
[a.d.
230–270–280.] From Jerome1151
| 1151 De
illustr. viris., ch. 73. [The dates which are known suggest
conjectural dates of our author’s birth and death.] | we learn that Anatolius flourished in the
reign of Probus and Carus, that he was a native of Alexandria, and that
he became bishop of Laodicea. Eusebius gives a somewhat
lengthened account of him,1152
| 1152
In the 32d chapter of the seventh book of his Ecclesiastical
History. |
and speaks of him in terms of the strongest laudation, as one
surpassing all the men of his time in learning and science. He
tells us that he attained the highest eminence in arithmetic, geometry,
and astronomy, besides being a great proficient also in dialectics,
physics, and rhetoric. His reputation was so great among the
Alexandrians that they are said to have requested him to open a school
for teaching the Aristotelian philosophy in their city.1153
| 1153
[“There were giants in those days.” How gloriously,
even in the poverty and distress of the martyr-ages, the cultivation of
learning was established by Christianity!] | He did
great service to his fellow-citizens in Alexandria on their being
besieged by the Romans in a.d. 262, and was the
means of saving the lives of numbers of them. After this he is
said to have passed into Syria, where Theotecnus, the bishop of
Cæsareia, ordained him, destining him to be his own successor in
the bishopric. After this, however, having occasion to travel to
Antioch to attend the synod convened to deal with the case of Paul of
Samosata, as he passed through the city of Laodicea, he was detained by
the people and made bishop of the place, in succession to
Eusebius.1154
| 1154 [This
Eusebius was a learned man, born at Alexandria.] | This must
have been about the year 270 a.d. How
long he held that dignity, however, we do not know. Eusebius
tells us that he did not write many books, but yet enough to show us at
once his eloquence and his erudition. Among these was a treatise
on the Chronology of Easter; of which a considerable extract is
preserved in Eusebius. The book itself exists now only in a Latin
version, which is generally ascribed to Rufinus, and which was
published by Ægidius Bucherius in his Doctrina Temporum,
which was issued at Antwerp in 1634. Another work of his was the
Institutes of Arithmetic, of which we have some fragments in
the θεολογούμενα
τῆς
ἀριθμητικῆς, which was published in Paris in 1543. Some small fragments of
his mathematical works, which have also come down to us, were published
by Fabricius in his Bibliotheca Græca, iii. p.
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