Marius Victorinus c. 290 AD – c. 364 AD

Gaius Marius Victorinus was a Roman rhetorician, grammarian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and Latin Christian theologian whose late conversion in Rome around 355 became a pattern that helped inspire Augustine's own. Honored with a public statue in the Forum of Trajan as a leading teacher of rhetoric, he translated some of the works of Plotinus and Porphyry into Latin and so brought Neoplatonic thought to a Latin-reading Christian audience for the first time. His treatises against Arianism applied a Neoplatonic conceptual vocabulary to Trinitarian theology, and his commentaries on Cicero and on the letters of Paul shaped subsequent Latin philosophical theology.