NEMESIUS (fl. c. A.D. 390)  , a Christian philosopher, author of a treatise 7repi rbuo-€ws avOpc,aov (On Human Nature), was, according to the title of his book, bishop of Emesa (in Syria); of his life nothing further is known, and even his date is uncertain, but internal evidence points to a date after the Apollinarian controversy and before the strife connected with the names of' Eutyches and Nestorius, i.e. about the end of the 4th century . His book is an interesting attempt to compile a system of anthropology from the standpoint of the Christian philosophy . Moses and Paul are put side by side with Aristotle and Menander, and there is a clear inclination to Platonic doctrines of pre-existence and metempsychosis . In physiological matters he is in advance of Aristotle and Galen, though we can hardly assert—as has sometimes been thought—that he anticipated Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood . The treatise is conclusive evidence as to the mutual influence of Christianity and Hellenism in the 4th century . John of Damascus and the sr hoolmen, including Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, Poetae Latini Minores, iii . (1881) ; Cynegetica: ed . M . Haupt (with held Nemesius in high esteem, believing his book to be the work of Gregory of Nyasa, with whom he has much in common . Editions: Antwerp, 1575; Oxford, 1671; Halle, 1802; Migne's Patrol . Gr. vol . 4o .

Versions: Latin by Alsanus, ed . Holzinger (1887); by

Burgundio, ed . Burkhardt (1891-1896) . Literature: Bender, Untersuch. fiber Nemesius (1898) . See further Herzog-Hauck's Realencyldop, s.v .