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AEDESIUS (d. A.D. 355)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AEDESIUS (d. A.D. 355) , Neoplatonist philosopher, was See also:born of a See also:noble Cappadocian See also:family. He migrated to See also:Syria, attracted by the lectures of lamblichus, whose follower he became. Ac-cording to See also:Eunapius, be differed from See also:Iamblichus on certain points connected with magic. He taught at See also:Pergamum, his See also:chief disciples being See also:Eusebius and See also:Maximus. He seems to have modified his doctrines through fear of See also:Constantine. See'See also:Ritter and See also:Preller, 552; Ritter's Geschichte der Philosophie; T. Whittaker, The Neoplatonists (See also:Cambridge, 1901).

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