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"In such a mighty contest, sedition and discord, you will see one according law and assertion in all the earth, that there is one god, the king and father of all things, and many gods, sons of god, ruling together with him." Maximus Tyrius As animals form the intermediate stage between plants and human beings, so there exist intermediaries between God and man, ''viz.'' daemons, who dwell on the confines of heaven and earth. The soul in many ways bears a great resemblance to the divinity; it is partly mortal, partly immortal, and, when freed from the fetters of the body, becomes a daemon. Life is the sleep of the soul, from which it awakes at death. The style of Maximus is superior to that of the ordinary sophistical rhetorician, but scholars differ widely as to the merits of the essays themselves. Maximus of Tyre must be distinguished from the Stoic Maximus , tutor of Marcus Aurelius . Editions by J. Davies , revised with valuable notes by J. Markland (1740); J. J. Reiske (1774); F. Dubner (1840, with Theophrastus, ''etc.'', in the Didot series). Monographs by R. Robdich (Beuthen, 1879); H. Hobein , ''De Maximo Tyrio quaestiones philol.'' (Jena, 1895). There is an English translation (1804) by Thomas Taylor , the Platonist. REFERENCES |
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