Controversies
Historians have had difficulty in the past identifying the person of "Maximus" mentoned in the Meditations. Méric Casaubon in his 1692 edition of the Meditations refutes in his footnotes a previously held identification of this Maximus with “…that other Maximus Tyrius; mentioned by Eusebius.” William Smith some two hundred years later wrote, "Some have identified Claudius Maximus with the Maximus who was consul, A.D. 144; Fabrieius... identifies him with the Claudius Maximus, 'proconsul of '" He however concludes that the truth of all these identifications is "very uncertain." Only towards the end of the 20th century has there been any consensus on the matter favoring full identification of all these persons with the Maximus of the Meditations (excepting Maximus Tyrius, who was a Platonic).
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