MAXIMUS (Tyra us), in biography, a celebrated philosopher and elegant writer in the second century, was a native of Tyre, in Phwnicia, whence he took his name. Suidas says, that he lived under the Emperor Commodus, while Eusebius and Syncellus place him under Antoninus Pius. IF we suppose that he flourished under Antoninus, and lived to the time of the first mentioned Emperor,the accounts of those chronologers may be reconciled. According to some writers, he can to Rome In the year 146, where the Emperor Marcus Aurelius give him many tokens of his esteem, and placed himself under his instruction ; but it is more probable, that the preceptor of whom that prince speaks, under the name of Maximus, was some other philosopher, of the Stoical sect. Our Maximus appears, from his writings, to have adopted the principles of the Pla tonic school, with some tendency towards scepticism. Forty-one of his "Disserta
tions" on various philosophical topics are still extant, and display the most capti vating powers of eloquence. The first Latin version of them was published at Basil, by Cosmo Pazzi, Archbishop of Florence, in 1519, folio ; and Henry Ste vens first printed the original Greek, at Paris, in 1557, 8vo. to which he added Pa zzi's version, with numerous alterations and corrections. In 1607, the learned Daniel Heinsius published an edition of them at Leyden, in Greek and Latin, 8vo.; the version being his own, and illustrated with notes. Of this edition our country man, Dr. John Davies, gave a new im pression from the Cambridge press, in 1703, 8vo. with corrections, additional notes, and two useful indexes.