Herminus ( el, Ἑρμῖνος; 2nd century) was a

Peripatetic Peripatetic may refer to: *Peripatetic school, a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece *Peripatetic axiom * Peripatetic minority, a mobile population moving among settled populations offering a craft or trade. *Peripatetic Jats There are several ...

philosopher. He lived in the first half of the 2nd century. He appears to have written commentaries on most of the works of

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. Simplicius says he was the teacher of

Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexander of Aphrodisias ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς, translit=Alexandros ho Aphrodisieus; AD) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristo ...

. We learn from Alexander's commentary on the ''

Prior Analytics The ''Prior Analytics'' ( grc-gre, Ἀναλυτικὰ Πρότερα; la, Analytica Priora) is a work by Aristotle on reasoning, known as his syllogistic, composed around 350 BCE. Being one of the six extant Aristotelian writings on logic ...

'' that Herminus had worked on Aristotle's

syllogistic A syllogism ( grc-gre, συλλογισμός, ''syllogismos'', 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. ...

system, adding innovations which Alexander disapproved of. His writings, of which nothing remains, are frequently referred to by

Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known as Boethius (; Latin: ''Boetius''; 480 – 524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, ''magister officiorum'', historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the tr ...

, who mentions a treatise by him, ''On Interpretation'' ( el, περὶ Ἑρμηνείας), as also ''Analytics'' and ''Topics''. A

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philosopher called Herminus is mentioned by

Longinus Longinus () is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance and who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal G ...

in the preface to his book ''On Ends''. This Herminus had been a teacher when Longinus was young (c. 230).Geert Roskam, (2005), ''On the path to virtue: the Stoic doctrine of moral progress and its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism'', page 393. Leuven University Press

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