Porphyry (233‒305)

Porphyry, a Neo-Platonic philosopher of Alexandria, born at Tyre; resorted to Rome and became a disciple of Plotinus (q.v.), whose works he edited; he wrote a work against Christianity, known only from the replies (233‒305).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)