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unusual facts about Hierocles


Hierocles

Sossianus Hierocles, 3rd-4th century, proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria during the reign of Diocletian


Macarius Magnes

These fragments are apparently drawn from the lost "Words against the Christians" of Porphyry or from the "Truth-Loving Words" of Hierocles.

Zanobi Acciaioli

Acciaioli worked mainly on translating Ancient Greek texts, including Olympiodorus on Ecclesiastes, a treatise of Eusebius against Hierocles, and Theodoret's Cure of the false Opinions of the Gentiles, and some other pieces.


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