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Maximus
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maximus
English
Etymology
en :bor la:Maximus + 1
Proper noun
+ Maximi
en male.
en w:Henry Fynes Clinton Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople.Vol. II Appendix. From the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius. II (Appendix) Oxford, Oxfordshire At the University Press 1850 309 https://archive.org/details/fastiromanicivil02clinuoft/page/309/mode/1up Maximus Byzantinus. Contemporary with Maximus of Ephesus: Socrates H. E. III. 1 Μάξιμος ὁ φιλόσοφος, οὐχ ὁ Βυζάντιος ὁ Εὐκλείδου πατὴρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ ᾿Εφέσιος. Speaking of cir. A. D. 350. These two Maximi are confounded by Suidas p. 2396 BC.
en Article II. Smith’s Christian Antiquities. The Southern Presbyterian Review XXXII Columbia, S.C. Printed at the Presbyterian Publishing House July 1881 433 https://books.google.com/books?id=m0rKWNxDaokC&pg=PA433 [S]ix have references to other names, and then there are twenty-four different days of commemoration. The catalogue of Maximuses, of whom they are sixty-two recorded, is on a similar plan.
en M. Pellegrino Adrian Walford MAXIMUS of Turin Angelo Di Berardino Encyclopedia of the Early Church I New York, N.Y. w:Oxford University Press 1992 549 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofea0001unse/page/549/mode/1up 1 0-19-520892-7 G.E. Ganss, Selected sermons of saint Maximus and saint Valerian’s homilies, FC 17, Washington 1965; F. Gallesio, Sermoni di s. Massimo di Torino, Rome 1975; Ed. and Eng. tr. B. Ramsey, The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, ACW 50 (1989). Studies supposing the identity of the two Maximi or referring uncritically to B. Bruni’s edition have a relative value.
en Stephen Mitchell Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor II (The Rise of the Church) Oxford, Oxfordshire Clarendon Press 1993 1995 91 https://archive.org/details/anatolialandmeng0002mitc/page/91/mode/1up 2 0-19-815030-X The company of men like the two Maximi, local landowner and provincial governor, may have deluded Julian into forming hopes which far outreached anything that could be achieved by anti-Christian legislation.
en D. F. Buck Socrates Scholasticus on Julian the Apostate Byzantion LXXIII Brussels 2003 303 https://archive.org/details/byzantion-06-1931/Byzantion-73-2-%282003%29/page/303/mode/1up Socrates carefully distinguishes Maximus of Ephesus from Maximus of Byzantium, and identifies him, pejoratively, as the philosopher who was executed by Valentinian for magic. Given the care with which he differentiates the two Maximi, it is curious that he wrongly attributes the execution to Valentinian rather than to Valens.
en David [Stone] Potter An Ordered Society Constantine the Emperor Oxford, Oxfordshire w:Oxford University Press 2013 2015 part 8 (Ruler of the World) 274 https://archive.org/details/constantineemper0000pott_q2e2/page/274/mode/1up 978-0-19-023162-0 To men he felt he could trust—Bassus, the two Maximi, Felix, Evagrius, and Ablabius, for instance—he was willing to delegate great authority over long periods of time;
Derived terms
Max diminutive
Latin
Etymology
la :der maximus
From la maximus the greatest.
Pronunciation
Maximus
Proper noun
Maximus<2>
A Roman en cognomen — famously held by:
Quīntus Fabius Maximus, a Roman dictator
Declension
Maximus<2>
Descendants
1 cs Maxim
1 fr Maxime
1 el Μάξιμος
1 cu Маѯимъ
1 orv Максимъ
zle-ort Максимъ
be Максім
uk Макси́м
ru Макси́м
1 zle-ono Маѯиме
1 it Massimo
1 lv Maksims
1 mk Максим
1 pl Maksym
1 ru Макси́м
1 es Máximo
1 pt Máximo
1 uk Макси́м
la cognomina