Victorius

Victōrĭus, ĭī, m. , nom dʼun centurion : Liv. 34, 46 || Victorius Marcellus, auquel Quintilien dédia son Institution oratoire : Quint.

Victorius

Petrus (Pietro Vettori). A great classical scholar and critic of the time of the Italian Renaissance, born in 1499 and died in 1584. He published editions of Cicero (with commentary), Sophocles (with commentary and scholia), Aeschylus, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, Poetics, De Partibus Animalium (translation and commentary), Xenophon's Memorabilia, Terence, Sallust, Varro De Re Rustica, Demetrius Phalereus De Elocutione, Dionysius, Isaeus , Dinarchus, Hipparchus (in part), Clemens Alexandrinus, and Porphyrius De Abstinentia, and thirty-eight books of readings (Variae Lectiones). See his life by Bandini (Florence, 1758); and Creuzer, Opuscula, pp. 21-36.