Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 73

san Girolamo (345–420 d.C.) · De viris illustribus · PL 23, 598–720

73 Anatolius the bishop PL 23, 683

Anatolius of Alexandria, bishop of Laodicea in Syria, who flourished under the emperors Probus and Carus, was a man of wonderful learning in arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic. We can get an idea of the greatness of his genius from the volume which he wrote On the passover and his ten books On the institutes of arithmetic.

Anatolius Alexandrinus, Laodiceae Syriae episcopus, sub Probo et Caro imperatoribus floruit; mirae doctrinae vir fuit in arithmetica, geometria, astronomia, grammatica, rhetorica, dialectica. Cujus ingenii magnitudinem de volumine, quod super Pascha composuit, et decem libris de arithmeticae institutionibus, intelligere possumus.

Ἀνατόλιος, Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Λαοδικείας τῆς Συρίας ἐπίσκοπος, ἐπὶ Πρόβου καὶ Κάρου βασιλέων ἤνθησε, θαυμαστῆς παίδεύσεως ἀνὴρ ἐν τῇ ἀριθμητικῇ, γεωμετρικῇ, ἀστρονομικῇ, γραμματικῇ, ῥητορικῇ, διαλεκτικῇ. Οὗτινος τῆς εὐφΐας τὸ μέγεθος ἀπὸ τοῦ τεύχους τοῦ περὶ Πάσχα συντεθειμένου, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν δέκα λόγων τῆς ἀριθμητικῆς συντάξεως, νοεῖν δυνησόμεθα.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).