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NEMESIUS (fl. c. A.D. 390)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEMESIUS (fl. c. A.D. 390)  , a See also:Christian philosopher, author of a See also:treatise 7repi rbuo-€ws avOpc,aov (On Human Nature), was, according to the See also:title of his See also:book, See also:bishop of Emesa (in See also:Syria); of his See also:life nothing further is known, and even his date is uncertain, but See also:internal See also:evidence points to a date after the Apollinarian controversy and before the strife connected with the names of' See also:Eutyches and See also:Nestorius, i.e. about the end of the 4th See also:century . His book is an interesting See also:attempt to compile a See also:system of See also:anthropology from the standpoint of the Christian See also:philosophy . See also:Moses and See also:Paul are put See also:side by side with See also:Aristotle and See also:Menander, and there is a clear inclination to Platonic doctrines of pre-existence and See also:metempsychosis . In physiological matters he is in advance of Aristotle and See also:Galen, though we can hardly assert—as has sometimes been thought—that he anticipated See also:Harvey's See also:discovery of the circulation of the See also:blood . The treatise is conclusive evidence as to the mutual See also:influence of See also:Christianity and See also:Hellenism in the 4th century . See also:John of See also:Damascus and the sr hoolmen, including Albertus See also:Magnus and See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas, Poetae See also:Latini Minores, iii . (1881) ; Cynegetica: ed . M . See also:Haupt (with held See also:Nemesius in high esteem, believing his book to be the See also:work of See also:Gregory of See also:Nyasa, with whom he has much in See also:common . See also:Editions: See also:Antwerp, 1575; See also:Oxford, 1671; See also:Halle, 1802; See also:Migne's See also:Patrol . Gr. vol . 4o .

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

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

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