Maximus
historical figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
the most excellent Maximus · the most reverend brother Maximus · the tyrant Maximus · your venerable self
spoken of as
2 expressionsMaximus the Scholar1 mention
Letters (Greek)
For it is truly no small gain, when a man has passed from a great house and an illustrious family to the life of the Gospel, to bridle his youth by reason, to make the passions of the flesh slaves to reason, and to practise the humility that a Christian owes, thinking of himself as is fitting—whence he sprang and whither he is going.
Maximus the philosopher1 mention
Letters (Greek)
We have come to know you, then, through your letter, as the saying goes, the lion from his claws;
in the texts
Letters
Former governor ruined and persecuted, on whose behalf Basil intercedes.
For this reason the most reverend brother Maximus, who governed our country, having suffered such things as no other man yet has — stripped of all his possessions, both what was his by inheritance and what had been gathered from former labours, and grievously afflicted in body by his wanderings up and down, and not even keeping unharmed the very right of citizenship for which it is the custom of f …
But the misfortune that has befallen the most excellent Maximus has taught us to consider as credible even those things, until now mythical and quite incredible.
You yourself set before your eyes the affliction of Maximus, formerly held in esteem but now the most pitiable of all men, who governed our country — would that he had not!
Meditations
A teacher who modeled self-mastery, good cheer, and unshakeable constancy; his illness is cited as an example of perfected strength and sobriety.
But to be strong enough for the one and sober enough for the other is the mark of a man whose soul is perfect and unconquered — as he showed in the illness of Maximus.
From Maximus:
That I came to know Apollonius, Rusticus, Maximus.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Roman usurper emperor who authorized the persecution and execution of Priscilian and his followers, later himself defeated and killed by Theodosius.
It is true, indeed, that two Spanish bishops pursued to death the Priscilianists under Maximus;
Maximus having caused the Emperor Gratian, the colleague of Theodosius, to be assassinated at Lyons, meditated the destruction of Valentinian the second, who, during his infancy, had been made successor to Gratian.
On the Commonwealth
Roman general (Fabius Maximus), characterized as deliberate and slow, contrasted with Marcellus.
Maximus, as deliberate and slow.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman figure of the Second Punic War, cited as favored by divine help
in the second, Maximus, Marcellus, Africanus;
Tusculan Disputations
Roman statesman/general listed among exemplars of lasting fame.
But far more slowly will fame forsake Curius, Fabricius, Calatinus, the two Scipios, the two Africani, Maximus, Marcellus, Paulus, Cato, Laelius, and others past number;