 It has been speculated that Ammonius may actually have converted to Christianity. A remark in Philoponus’ edition of Ammonius’ lectures on De Anima (104,21–23) to the effect that the soul could be forced to profess tyrants’ impious dogma, but could not be forced to assent to it and believe it, might perhaps go back to Ammonius and has been taken as possible evidence that he was coerced to pay lip service to Christianity, as has the dialectically coerced admission (2.1094–1121) of Zacharias’ character ‘Ammonius’ that the Trinity really is “three in hypostasis and being, but one in number” (Westerink 1962, XI–XII and Cameron 1969,14–15). But there is no convincing evidence of a conversion (cf. Blumenthal 1986, 322–323), nor of any change in the real Ammonius’ teaching. 