Victorinus the Teacher of Rhetoric

Victorinus, a teacher of rhetoric at Marseilles, wrote for his son Etherius a commentary On Genesis, that is, from the beginning of the book to the death of the patriarch Abraham, and he published four books in verse. Their words have a savor of piety, indeed, but since he was a man busy with secular literature and quite untrained in the Divine Scriptures, they carry little weight as far as ideas are concerned. [a] He died in the reign of Theodosius and Valentinian.