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AEDESIUS (d. A.D. 355)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AEDESIUS (d. A.D. 355)  , Neoplatonist philosopher, was born of a noble Cappadocian
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family . He migrated to
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Syria, attracted by the lectures of lamblichus, whose follower he became . Ac-cording to
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Eunapius, be differed from Iamblichus on certain points connected with magic . He taught at Pergamum, his chief disciples being Eusebius and Maximus . He seems to have modified his doctrines through fear of
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Constantine . See'Ritter and Preller, 552; Ritter's Geschichte der Philosophie; T . Whittaker, The Neoplatonists (Cambridge, 1901) .

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