Excerpt from Synesius the Hellene

The following account of Synesius is based upon a study of his works as given in the sixty-sixth volume of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (Paris, 1864), which contains the notes of Petau on most of the books and those of Krabinger on the Panegyric on Baldness. I have accepted Migne's text as trustworthy, merely exchanging it in some few places for that of the German scholar.

I have derived much assistance from all the writers on Synesius given in my list of authorities, and am especially indebted to the splendid care with which Krabinger has collected a multitude of literary allusions (though he seldom gives the words) in my author's writings. Indeed, if it had not been for him, I should have missed most of the references to Plato and Aristotle, and nearly all those to books beyond the range of an ordinary classical course. At the same time, I have never admitted his statements without verifying them for myself, or getting them verified for me.

I have had the disadvantage of being unable to obtain a copy of Theodor Clausen's De Synesio, which seems, from the respectful way in which later writers speak of it, to be a valuable treatise on the subject.

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