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ARNOBIUS (called Afer, and sometimes " the Elder "), early Christian writer, was a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Venerea in proconsular Africa during the reign of Diocletian. His conversion to Christianity is said by Jerome to have been occasioned by a dream; a ...

ANTONIUS, the name of a large number of prominent citizens of ancient Rome, of the gens Antonia. Antonius the triumvir claimed that his family was descended from Anton, son of Heracles. Of the Antonii the following are important. 1. MARCUS ANTONIUS (143-87 B.C

ARMINIUS, the Latinized form of the name of HERMANN, or more probably ARMIN (17 B.C.-A.D. 21), the German national hero. He was a son of a certain Segimer, a prince of the tribe of the Cherusci, and in early life served with distinction as an officer in the Ro

ARSENIUS (c. 354-450), an anchorite, said to have been born of a noble Roman family, who achieved a high reputation for his knowledge of Greek and Roman literature. He was appointed by Theodosius the Great, tutor of the young princes Arcadius and Honorius, but

... , §§ 4, 5, tones down the teaching of Wisdom; and the somewhat eccentric writer Arnobius, a layman — from Justin Martyr downwards apologetics has always been largely in the hands of laymen — stands for what has recently been called " conditional immortality " ...

... nes of the deer, elephant, rhinoceros, mastodon, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, &c. ARNOBIUS— ARNOLD

... The series of the Fathers alone contains Jerome (1516), Cyprian (1520), Pscudo-Arnobius (1522), Hilarius (1523), Irenaeus (Latin, 1526), Ambrose (1527), Augustine (1528), Chrysostom ERASMUS (Latin, 1530), Basil (Greek, 1532, the first Greek author printed in ...