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2 unusual facts about Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix


Saint Beatrice

See Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix for Beatrice, Roman Christian, 4th-century martyr

Saint Simplicius

one of the martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, Christian Martyr who died in Rome during the Diocletian persecution (302 or 303)


Hermann Alexander Diels

For example, what is thought to be the introductory section of Parmenides' poem on the Ways of Truth and Opinion was quoted by Sextus Empiricus and Simplicius; in Diels-Kranz this is labeled as fragment 28B1 — i.e., chapter 28, section B, fragment 1.

Jacopo Zabarella

Zabarella consulted newly recovered Greek commentators such as Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philoponus, Simplicius and Themistius, as well as medieval commentators like Thomas Aquinas, Walter Burley and Averroes.

Moderatus of Gades

Stobaeus, in his Eclogae, preserves a fragment of his writings; further extracts survive in the form of quotations in Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Simplicius's commentary on Aristotle's Physics.

Nicoletto Vernia

As time went on, the commentary On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias was translated into Latin, by Girolamo Donato, and a translation of the commentary attributed to Simplicius was also circulated.

Ostrogothic Papacy

While Simplicius still lived, the praetorian prefect, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, called together the Roman Senate, Roman clergy, and the leading local bishops in the Imperial Mausoleum.


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