Claudius Marius Victorius (or Victorinus or Victor) was a rhetor (i.e. a teacher and poet) of the fifth century CE from Marseille.
This 1020-line hexametrical poem, intended for the instruction of the young, survives in one ninth-century manuscript and dates from the first or second quarter of the fifth century CE.
[2] The author was inspired by Lucretius, Virgil and Ovid and transposes Christian content into a Classical literary form, the epic.
Gennadius's view of Victorius was not flattering: Victorinus, a rhetorician of Marseilles, wrote to his son Etherius, a commentary On Genesis, commenting, that is, from the beginning of the book to the death of the patriarch Abraham, and published four books in verse, words which have a savour of piety indeed, but, in that he was a man busied with secular literature and quite untrained in the Divine Scriptures, they are of slight weight, so far as ideas are concerned.
[3]However, Victorius's work fits into the tradition of Christian writers of the first centuries CE, such as Juvencus, Sedulius, Arator, Cyprianus Gallus, and Avit.