Meaning of Maximus | Babel Free

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A male given name.

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“Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.”

“[S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.”

“G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.”

“The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.”

“Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.”

“To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time; […]”

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