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1735 INDEX ANALYTICUS. Stephani M. dictum conciliatur cum Amoso, 121. Superbia dicitur interdum pro apostasia neglectuque Dei, 14, 23. Sycamina, vel sycamini, dicuntur ficus, 129. Synagoga adumbrata in Oseæ meretrice, 8. Syrus ex Hebraico interpres valde reprehenditur atque irridetur, 241, 252, 263. Ejus ignotum nomen, ibidem. Tacere pro negligere, 50. ^A Tharsis, aliis Tarsus vel Rhodus, 159. Typi vera notio, 185, 296. 1736 ^B Visio idem significat quod sermo Domini, cum præclara de hac re doctrina, 148. ^C Zelus Dei, id est ira, 216. Zorobabel de stirpe Davidica, 18, 181. Ὁ ἀγαθός, narrantis, non admirantis, 76. Sed videsis annotationem.

INDEX OF THOSE TO WHOM THE LETTERS OF SYNESIUS ARE WRITTEN

^A Anastasio, 175, 181, 186, 229. Anastasio Hydrocometæ, 257. Andronicum, 191. Anysio, 168, 172, 179, 203. Duci, 223, 224. Asclepiodoto, 261. Aureliano, 177, 178, 179. Auxentio, 203, 254. ^C Chrysæ, 229. Constanti, 176. Cyrillo, 171. ^D Diogeni, 174, 175. Domitiano scholastico, 293, 294. Duci, 174, 205. [E] Ad episcopum exsulem, 263. Ad episcopos, 201, 218. Evoptio fratri, 158, 159, 169, 173, 177 duæ, 179, 188 tres, 189 duæ, 190, 191, 206 tres, 229 duæ, 230, 231, 233, 243, 246, 250 duæ, 251 duæ, 252 duæ, 254, 257, 258, 261, 262, 267, 271, 272. [H] Heliodoro, 173, 175, 236. Herculiano, 272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282. Herodi et Martyrio, 174. Hesychio, 231. Hypatiæ philosophiæ magistræ, 170, 172, 173, 178, 228, 260, 290. [I] Joanni, 158, 181 duæ, 206, 283. [N] Nicandro, 157, 222. [O] Olympio, 186 duæ, 236 duæ, 237, 268, 281, 288. [P] Pentadio augustali, 176, 177. Petro presbytero, 171. Proclo, 217. Pylameni, 187, 201, 218, 222, 230 duæ, 238 duæ, 241, 263, 267, 270, 288 duæ, 289, 290. [S] Sacerdotibus, 167, 170. Simplicio, 175, 176, 264. [T] Theodoro medico, 255. Theodoro et sorori, 169. Theophilo, 170, 206, 208 duæ, 217, 222, 250. Theotimo, 186, 187. Troilo, 176, 219, 231, 253, 254 duæ, 256, 260. [U] Uranio, 180.

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^A Abrahæ in Ægyptum profecturo qua ratione res quæ ipsi eventuræ erant indicaverit Deus, 422. Absinthium somniare quid significet, 424. Achilles juvenis, comatus; calvitii sapientiæque non expers futurus, si sospes fuisset, 79, 80. Mortem in aquis perhorrescit, 162, 163. Achillis, Agamemnonis, et Jovis processus, quoad expugnationem Trojæ, 411. Actionibus nostris quæ mens præsideat, 276. Actionis et contemplationis discrimen, 199. Admonitione quomodo utendum, 3. Adrastiæ leges, 163. Adulatio venenatis potionibus similis, 2. Quam noxia regibus, 12. Adulteri comæ studiosi, 84. Subvertent familias, 85. Æmulatio quomodo augeatur, 104. Ægyptii duplici Deum specie fingunt, 7. Ægyptii et fabulosi et sapientes admodum, 89. Deos apud se regnasse credunt, 93. Regum apud eos creatio, et sacerdotum gradus varii, 94 per tot. Scytharum auxiliis usi, 108, 109. Ciliciis carebant eorum sacerdotes, 70, 71. Accipitrum et ibidum rostra portis insculpebant, 75. Incantatores sunt, 73. Illorum prudentia in imaginibus deorum effingendis, 73. Illorum artificium in diis pelliciendis, 73. Luctus et calamitates sub Typhone, 111, 112. Ægyptus virtutis schola sub Osiride, 103. Pro rebellis jampridem et SS. Patribus inimica, 265. Æsculapius quomodo apud Ægyptios pictus, et cur in propatulo collocatus, 75. Affectuum vacuitas in sola Dei natura, 45. Agamemnon uxorem Cantori commisit, 86. Ubinam etiam hodie imperare credatur, 287, 288. Agesilai familiaritas et conversatio, 20. Agricolæ cur fragrantibus fœtida, amaris dulcia asserant, 126.

Ajacis mors, 162. Alexander M. Persis cedere coactus, 80. Alienum omne ut a corporibus, ita a civitatibus excernendum, 22, 25, 26, 28. ^A Δόξαι probationes, 60. Amantes sese mutuo coeunt in unum, 276, 289. Amici consortium quam regi necessarium, 11. Amico sincero non melior possessio, 187. Amicum, quod honestum, et utrumque idem et unum, 274, 275. Amicus summi Regis quis appellari possit, 8. Amorum duo genera, 276. Amus Ægyptius quam solers, 48. Anacalypteria quæ sacra, 70. Andromacha mima quam pulchra, 253. Andronici præfecti impietas, 191, 192, et deinceps. Excommunicatur, 201, 218. Christo verbis factisque maledixit, 201, 218. Pilato assimilatur, 202. Crudelitas adversus inimicum, 202. Ejusdem administri excommunicantur, ^B 203. Providentia fulciri videtur, 225. Perstringuntur nova ejus delicta. Ibidem et seqq. Ecclesia ejusdem miseretur, 250. Anima, quoad ejus fieri potest, Deum imitatur, 71. Anima quas continet formas, 134. Quomodo trahat et trahatur, 135. Eadem pennæ, 138. Animæ subvectio castum et pudicum requirit lectulum, 145. Animæ hominum status et conditio quomodo deprehendi possint, 142. Animæ quælibet contubernale sidus habent, ex Timæo, et unde spiritum inquinent, 151. Cur raro bonæ, 98. A diis huc transmissæ, 99. Animalia pilosa, stolida, 67. Animi robur quomodo perficiatur, 15, 16. Animi relaxatio quædam ut Deo, sic dæmonibus quædam convenit, 119. ^C Ratio explicatur, 125, 126, etc. Animus quomodo evehendus et ad Deum convertendus, 50. Cito abluendus, 183. Anthemius vir egregius, 187, 220, 301. Anus barbara et stolida convenitur ab uxore Typhonis, et quid utraque molita sit adversus Osiridem, 108, 109, 110. Anysii elogium, 304, 305, 306. Apollonius, præstigiator comatus, notatur, 69. Apparatus superflui insalubres sunt corpori, 2. Aquæ lustralis usus, 258. Aquilam simul et cycnum esse, avibus non homini quomodo negatum, 54. Aquilarum pulli ut volare discant, 61. Arbores montanæ firmiores, 76. Arborum natura in fructibus producendis, qualis, 126. Archimedes quam industrius et solers, 133. Area lunæ. Vide Luna. Aristides contra Platonem scripsit, 40. Aristoteles ex philosopho sophista, ^D 35. Aristoxenus Socratis obtrectator, 81. Arma, quibus non danda a legislatore, 22. Armatorum manus, nullo invadente superata, 115, 116. Ars, exercitatio, ætas, naturæ præstantia, præ Deo, parum admodum possunt, 121. Artes quomodo a principe fovendæ, 103, 104. Astrolabii laus, 307, 308 et seqq. Athenæ quondam sapientum domicilium, nunc mellatorum, 272. Auditus et visus sintne sensus, 136. Aurelianus consul, 204. Auscultare melius quam dicere, 57. Ausuriani Pentapolitanis infesti, 301, 302. Auxilium Dei ubicunque necessarium, sed quibus præsertim, 3. Avari egregie notati, 28. BACCHI sacra a quibus et quomodo celebrata, 68. Bacchi orgia qui temere irrumpens inspiciebat repente labebatur, 124. Balagritæ milites, 260. Barbarus in servando proposito constantior Græco est, 46. Barathrum sive spelunca quæ reddebat oracula, 303. Beatitatis et laudis discrimen, 4. Beatitudo non est in potentia constituta a Deo, 7. Belligerare quorum sit, 255, 278. Bello cujusque animus probatur, 244. Bellorum artifex imperator est, uti sutor calceamentorum, 14. Bellum cujus rei causa instituitur, 26. Bellum servile in Gallia calamitosum Romanis, 24. Benefacere aliis id solum homines habent cum Deo commune, 177. Beneficentia, regis signum notaque, 29. Benevolentia firmissimum regis præsidium, 21. Boeotiorum temeritas non impunita, 124. Bona labore parantur, 5, 15, 131. Bona externa non beant, 4. Cur ab Aristotele et Platone dicantur administra, 8. Cuinam optanda, 8. Boni nomen quomodo Deo conveniat, 9. Ad bonum quomodo progrediendum, 30. Bonus, ab insidiis et invasione securus, 27. Ubivis honeste degere potest, 106. Vide Probus. Bourbæa mons, 246. CADMI semen quantæ virtutis, 52. Calamitatibus alienis illudere iniquum, 51. Calamitates gentium, pravorum dæmonum epulæ sunt, 97. Calamitatum instrumenta non molitur Deus: cur his tamen utitur, 192. Calchas omnia noverat, 131. Calculorum usus apud Ægyptios, 94. Calix in manu Domini vini meri, plenus misto, etc., horum verborum intellectus, 295, 296. Calliope quam benigna studentibus, 53. Calvorum et calvitii laudes non paucæ, 63, 64, 65. Cambysis et Psammitichi prælium, 76, 77. Canes ad venationem utiles, 67. Capillitium et prudentia inter se pugnant, 67. Capillum nullus, quia cinædus sit, fovet, 214. Carini historia notatu digna, 17, 18. Carneades inter sophistas, 35. Carnifices, legum manus, 182. Carpathiæ naves, 180. Castimoniæ sanctioris usus apud Ægyptios in consulendis diis, 95. Castra imperatori repurganda ut frumentum repurgari solet, 24. Cerealis quam nequam, 264, 265. Cereris sacra, 70. Certamina jaculandi pugnandique publica cum sint, turpe est nulla esse virtutis, 28. Chilas qualis leno, 252. Chordarum singularum lyræ nomina, 166. Civitates dum conduntur ad quid respiciant, 311. Clavus clavo pellitur, 186. Clericorum avaritia notata, 170, 171. Cognitio. In cognitione nonnulla etiam inter partes dissensio est, 152. Coma Macedonibus infausta, 79, 80. Adolescentes decet, 80. Non est laudabilis in viris clarissimis, 81. Corruptelæ mulierum causa, 84. Comæ encomium, 63, 64, 65. Vituperium, 66, 67, 68. Cometæ sidera non sunt, 73. Varii sunt, 73. Mali habentur ominis propter comam, 74. Concentus ex contrariis, 133. Concilium deorum senumque adversus Typhonem, 122, 123. Concionatores nonnulli imperiti, 290. Nonnulli sophistæ infelices, 291. Consuetudini anteferenda utilitas, 201. Consulum cultus, 16. Contemplatio et actio nullo modo conveniunt, 199. Contemplationis et actionis ænigmata, 98. Contentio procul amandanda, 253. Juniorum est propria, 255, 278. Cranium insolatum transit in ferri duritiem, 46, 77. Crinibus arrepti facile superati, 79. Crixi et Spartaci rebellio, 24. Cultus superbus. Vide Imperator, Ornatus. Curiositas sacrorum fugienda, 121, 128, 129. Custodes reipublicæ cum canibus a Platone comparati, 21, 22. Cyrene civitas, 2. Quam claros viros tulerit, 183. DARII divitiæ, 3. Dæmones interiori naturæ affines; et qualis eorum naturæ conditio, 98, 100. Naturam habent phantasia constantem, 137. Dæmonum et fullonum comparatio, 182. Dæmonum instinctu tyrannis excita, 107, 108. Deus et sapientia et verbum est, 293. Quomodo humana moderatur, 20, 30. Rebus humanis veluti alea lusitat, 131. Dei nomina quomodo intelligenda, 131. Inextricabile explicari facile potest, 275. Dei natura benefacere, 192. Dii quid sint, 131. An aliquando ventitent in hæc inferiora, 101, 102. Deorum simulacra quomodo et quibus fingere permissum apud Ægyptios, 73. Deorum natura et gradus, 97. Quomodo universo præsint, 97, 99. Sunt in

^A celo (that is, of those things) which demons in the elements [do], 98. ^B Last days are the wisest witnesses, 129. Imperial dignity resides in the soul, not in ornamentation, 18. Dio of Prusa, what kind of man he was, 53. How dear he was to Trajan, 34. A philosopher from being a sophist, 36. His varied writings, 36. He surpassed all sophists, 41. He is noted in his oration concerning the nature of hair to be commended, 82, 83. The office of the Furies, 182. To learn and to attain are the same, 133. It is better to learn than to teach, 57. What the most excellent disciplines are, 242. That dissimilar things can be represented by dissimilar things, 152. Divination, how great a good, 131, 133, 143, 144. How great its utility is, 145, 146 and following. The two jars of Jove, 126. What dropax is, 75. ^C E. The Church lifts up the downcast, and humbles the exalted, 230. The best education, how it may be acquired, 150. How the effects of causes can be recalled, 127. All effeminate men are delighted by the gloss of cosmetic finery, 85. The study of eloquence is not to be rejected, 59. The admirable frugality of Epaminondas, 20. What he answered to one mocking the wooden hilt of his sword, 20. ^D Ephemerides are the best teachers, 153. Whether a bishop and a philosopher can coalesce, 273. It is fitting for a bishop to be a divine man, 217. How he ought to conduct himself, 247, 248. Bishops are not set over the republic, but over the pouring out of prayers, 258. Being drawn away by business they scarcely serve God, 199. What the prolixity of letters argues, 189, 229. The endowments of horses, 180. Erudition is the fountain of virtue, 103. Eudoxus of Cnidus, 35. The Eunomian heretics, 167. Example: Not all things are done according to an example, 200. Exile is sometimes useful, 125. To die expiated turns out well even among the shades below, 182. F. Fable is the study and discipline of children, 90. Fables from dreams, 154. Illustrious deeds ought not to be lacking in the praise of an oration, 237, 238. Fame is a goddess, 181. A defamer is detestable to God, 184. Family: In the family and public affairs protection belongs to the men; the care of those things which are within the house belongs to the women, 22. Fate and necessity: do they excuse when something happens which ought to have happened, 193. The lot and condition of fate is twofold, 140. How effective favor is for corrupting votes, 158. In what things happiness is to be established, 4. Happiness is a certain burden heavier than lead, 15. According to the foolish, it exists in the gifts of nature and fortune, 72. It is to be measured by the mind, 106. Who is to be said to have in some way reached the pinnacle of happiness, 7. Why the fruit of the fig is sweetest, but the leaves and bark are most bitter, 126. What the greater figure is, 71. Diversity in the characters of sons. See Brothers. He who uses the lash is sometimes led by repentance, 102. A double fountain constituted by the nature of the universe, 89. Fortune cannot be the cause of virtue, 4. The communion of fortune makes men of different nations agree, 24. Its inconstancy is compared to bad companions of the road, 5. It turns states upside down, 242. Two brothers, how dissimilar they are, although born from the same sowing, 114. G. What a helmet is, why it is adorned with horsehair, and how it relates to baldness, 80. The cause of generation is in the higher world, 127. How true the definitions of geometry are, 266. Gerontius is commended, 229. The comparison of the public sword and lustral water, 258. The Goths are hostile to the Roman Empire, 17, 22. They are to be excluded from the military and magistracies, 23. Most of them are slaves, 23. Unwarlike and often defeated, 25. They flee as suppliants to the Romans, 25. In what respect a Greek is to be preferred to a Barbarian, 47. Greeks are lazy in investigating the truth, 73. Certain grammarians can become so even from philosophical books, 56. It is more blessed to be governed than to govern, 96. H. ^A Spears, the worse and the better, do not originate in the same place, 76. Hercules (not) against two, 64. In what way man is multiplex, 10. How he differs from beasts, 131. He is an animal of great value, 191. How the lower part of man may be strengthened by the mind, 100. It is permissible for a man to be eloquent and a philosopher, 54. Who are called by Plato men of intermediate condition, 51. Men are the sport of God, 120. Even a stupid little man is a gift to a king, 15. Honest things must be done honestly, 166. The honest and the friendly are one and the same, 274, 275. What it is to defer honor, 14. What is in honor must necessarily be made clear and be increased, 105. What happened to Icarus who disdained the use of his feet, 53. Idols of things. See Things. Imitation is a certain kind of conciliation, 177. A certain emperor, under the guise of an embassy, acted the part of a scout, 19. How the mind of a young emperor is to be curbed, an excellent comparison for this, 2. Whence the title of Emperor arose, 19. A certain emperor believed to live always, 287. The luxury of emperors is noted, 16. The frugality of some is commended, 17, 18. How much it matters for an emperor to take care that he is optimal, 3. Empire is the matter of common discordance of things from one another, 6. It does not suffice for happiness, 7. What empire is safer, 13. Impudicity is pernicious, 107. To go unpunished is a certain evil, 181. For the impure to handle pure things is forbidden, 50, 199, 274. That these lower things may be ruled, [according to] the saying of the King of Egypt, 97, 98. Who are primarily subject to misfortunes, 4. It is worse to inflict an injury than to receive one, 177. What is better for one doing an injury, 182, 184. What Synesius prayed for regarding his enemies, 189. Utility can be seized from them, 234. What Aristotle commands regarding initiating, 48. What kind of pollution the defilement after expiation is, 197. Nothing is more audacious than ignorance, 279, 290. Insomnia, 130, 131 and following. Intellections: Are they formed separate from matter, 137, 50. Intellect is a name conjoined with intelligible things, 50. What kind of perturbation envy is, 57. Italy was once called Magna Graecia, 308. J. What the hair of Jove is like, 72. Jars, 126. The comparison of Judas the traitor and Andronicus, 192. Whether the punishments constituted for him by Christ can be known, 193. That Jews are to be kept from all labor on the Sabbath, and they count the night with the following day, 193. How inept a certain judge of capital cases was, 51. Priests once exercised the office of judges, 198. Judgment is made from the use which each thing provides, 192. Justice once inhabiting earthly shores, why she retreated to heaven, 124, 125. Being recalled to justice, she holds second place in goods, 181. Youth is capable of any growth, 6. Youth, brought up on the institutions of others and using its own morals, is to be feared by a prince, 22. It is for the young to go before in war and sedition, 278. L. Labor is to be undergone even by princes, 12. The Lacedaemonians used to adorn their hair when about to go to battle, 63. Long hair for the Lacedaemonians was of ill-omen, 79. In what praise consists, 4. What is pernicious for an emperor, 2. How praise publicly bestowed is most magnificent, 86. Embassies are something sacred, and how great their utility is, 27. How great a security it is to fear the laws, 158. Who is to be called a foolish and impious legislator, 135. Whoever wishes to intend an action of violated laws is condemned, 221. The venerable antiquity of laws, 221. Leo the Byzantine, 35. What a limpet is [as a] shell, 163. A book is free from every care, 153. What is prohibited by law to add or innovate in books, 60. In what their occupation is placed, 60. How great the utility is from those that are depraved, 61.

^A Liberal disciplines are the handmaids of wisdom, 103. The commendation of polite letters, 44, 45, 47, 51, 53, 290. Libidinousness is not so much repressed by virtue as it is inflamed, 104. Profit is a pernicious pestilence, 28. Play does not befit bishops, 247. Light joins the eye with color, 292. The moon, and the phases thereof, similar to the species of the bald, 74. How light and the eye correspond to truth and the common people, 223. Of how many strings the lyre of Orpheus consisted, and of their various tones and appellations, 166. The epistle of Lysis the Pythagorean, 279. Lysippus and Apelles consulted one another, 158.

M The conflict of the Macedonians and Persians, 79. The incantations of the Magi, 132. The selection of magistrates as it ought to be done by a prince, 20, 30. One greater in age ought to take precedence in honorable matters, 235, 278. Whence wicked virtues are hateful and execrable to God, 191. How the wicked are separated from the good, 213. Whether to inflict a great evil upon someone is the same as doing a moderate injury to many, 183. How evils that are beginning are overcome, and how, when advanced, they are strengthened, 24. What is the supreme evil and what is proper to whom, 138. Whose role it is to use evil things opportunely, 192. Marcomanni soldiers are most brave, 253. Sea. The habit of those in danger at sea, 163, 164. No one has ever committed himself to the sea without anxiety, 161. The functions of the male and female, 22, 23. The matter of all things is the extreme, 69. The dregs of matter cannot be a divine body, 140. An argument for maturity in fruit, 70. The similarity between the art of medicine and the science of commanding, 220. The mediocre and the mendicant do not grasp the magnitude of a calamity, 4. The mind is the most divine of seeds, 70. If mind and prudence are present to an old man, it is well for him, 137. The mind is a certain intermediate nature in man, 10. What is the ratio of mind and soul, 134. Whether the nature of the mind can be bent, 133. How we understand the actions of the mind, 131. Who grasp the illuminations of the mind, 292. Some are gifted with extraordinary greatness of mind, 48, 51. Nothing is more conjoined by reason to the mind, 47. Many excellent things regarding both, 47, 48. The table is something sacred, 192. Mercury is depicted in a double guise, 101. Soldiers are easily captured by custom, 13. Why Plato calls them guardians and compares them to dogs, 13. Indigenous, not foreign, troops must be used, 21, 22. How they are to be restrained, 27. How a pathicus or cinaedus are depicted, 86, 87. A singular monarchy is the providence of God, 99. Tyranny makes monarchy hateful; royal power makes it lovable, 19. Plato calls it a divine good, 19. Those suffering from the comitial disease (epilepsy) feel only the refrigerations of the moon, 292. That it is more impious to steal the lucubrations of the dead than their garments, 280. Death in the waters; what Homer thought of it, 162. The faction and luxury of a certain woman, 105. Courage in dangers, 107. A foolish old woman is fitting, 108. He brings forth a kingdom for her husband, 112. He compares women to hens, 267. Women who served in military expeditions, leaving behind evidence of destruction and subversion even with their little children, 303. Their propensity towards those who nourish them, 303. Whether the world is an animal, 71. What it is, 132, 133. The Muses are something initiatory, and how they can affect and hold, 53. They provide an occasion for honor and reverence to their worshippers, 238. Whence the appellation of them arose, 42. How great their utility is, 44. A change for the better has nothing of novelty nor absurdity, 551. It is not so sudden as a change for the worse, 125. What a mystic ought to be, 119.

N How much nature loves that which it has brought forth, 157. Whether the gifts of nature have any happiness, 72. Of its process in imperfect things, and how it behaves in more powerful ones, 69. Nature has need of some solace, 45. Merchant ships used by reason, 150. Navigation introduced by men, and from their society justice withdrew itself, 125. Not even the gods oppose necessity, 213. What Nemesis is, 285. Wickedness is learned without a teacher, 123. Wickedness is its own sufficient punishment for everyone, ^B 178. What it is to oppose wickedness, 231. Night is the greatest of shadows, 75. Mysteries are committed to it, 75.

O How much opinion avails among the unskilled, 72. Oracles do not render answers clear to everyone, 135. The most miserable condition of certain orators, 54, 55. The ornamentation of emperors is almost theatrical, the ruin of the Roman empire, 14, 15, 16, 17. The history of Osiris and Typhon, 89, 90. What kind of leisure is a good, 238. The stupidity of sheep from their hair, 67.

P Palasbica and Hydrax, villages of Libya, 210. What eyelids sprouting with a double row of hairs signify, 67. A shepherd ought not to place wolves among dogs, 22. What a shepherd should do, 5, 6. The institutions of the fatherland are not to be violated, 15. He who violated the rites and institutions of the fatherland immediately drank hemlock, 72. Poor. Whether the poor are to be promoted to magistracy, 30, 31. Peace is happier than war, 25. He who sins against God ought not to obtain honor from men, 247. To sin in nothing is a great good, 184. To be free from sin is of an entirely divine condition and nature, 213. Why the spear of Peleus was so celebrated, 76. The calamities of Pentapolis, 301, 302. What perturbations do in the mind, 10, 11. One persistent in offenses is to be punished, 3. Phantasia, what sense it is and how useful, 134, 135, 136, et seqq. The domicile of philosophy is with God, 31. Whether it is present or absent, human affairs become better or worse; what kind of things are its parts, 1, 2. When philosophy is harsh and difficult, it is per se sufficient to bring some good to men, 212. It excels rhetoric, 242. Its lot to be unhappy, 242. Two parts of philosophy, 213. It does not fight much over names, 26. How the things that are great and serious in it are to be hidden, 130. How philosophy and the common people differ, 219, 279. The philosopher, what is required in him, 42, 43. How he is to be depicted, 87. A philosopher consecrated to God is never neglected, 193. The discrepancy between a philosopher and an orator, 55, 56, 57. Philosophers badly treated by Dio, 37, 40. Philostratus is refuted, 35, 36, 37. The Egyptians measure the circuits of the periods by the Phoenix, 49. Piety and familial religion among the Egyptians under the times of Osiris, 105. Hairs even grow on the dead, 79. They were the greatest detriment to soldiers, 79. The nature of hair is void of reason, 69. The hairy are stupid, 64. Those who have denied sea fish, 285. The crime of plagiarism is grave, 280. Platonists hide the more excellent things under meaner objects, 32. A saying of Plotinus when dying, 276. What is a dangerous cup, 295. Why punishment is to be undergone quickly, 183. More on punishments, what may be said, 140. The punishments of the impious, 142. Who are the arbiters of punishments, 183. The ministers of punishments are natures utterly alien from God, 192. What exactors of punishments God uses, 192. That to pay penalties in a gross body is not the same as in a likeness, 182. How great is the power of penitence, 139. Poetry joined to philosophy, 59. The poet is most elegant by the benefit of phantasia, 134. The poetic art is popular, 72. What was granted to it by God, 271. Polyphemus. See Ulysses. The people marvel at what lies externally, 72. He is persistent in opinion, 72. Deluded by the Egyptians regarding the knowledge of the gods, 73. One must use, not abuse, the friendships of the powerful, 206. It is fatal for a teacher to labor under envy, 57. How the seals of jugglers are moved, 98. The upright overcome the wicked by good hope, 213. Profusion and frugality are opposed, 17. How one is most alien yet remains closest, 146.

^A Proportion. See Euclid. The fable of Proteus is explained, 44. Proverbs, whence they are immortal, 86. Some proverbs: Even a mangy camel bears the burdens of many asses, 254. Item: To urge a horse to the field, 293. Item: No one is long-haired who is not [something else], 85. Item: Far from Jove and from the thunderbolt, 1743.

Providence. How God uses it in the conduct of affairs, 30. A king ought to apply the same in the administration of the realm, 50. It is recognized in desperate situations, 116. Royal providence, 103, 104. Providence approves itself to the wise, and is verified in destruction, 116, 117. It is [a matter] of divine providence to rule infinite [matters] through the intervention of one man, 99.

Prudence: how useful and necessary it is for the administration of affairs, 7. The force and power of prudence, such as a bulwark, 101. A place of prudence is where there are no hairs, 67, 69. A symbol of prudence, 69. Children’s exquisite nature, 90. Their bad qualities likewise, 92. The argument for praising beauty was taken by Homer from the hair, not the eyes, 65. How the beauties of the gods are depicted, 292.

Purgation of the courtyard, 126. We must practice purgative virtues, 47, 50. Punishment is to be desired for those convicted of a crime, 182, 183. It is counted among goods, 184. Pythian seer, why called Loxias, 133.

Questions worthy of admiration: Why two sons are born from the same house with different characters, 125, 126. Item: Why the same things often happen in the different customs and times of men, and men in old age see the things they had already learned long ago as boys, either from books or received from their grandfathers, 127.

Those who are contrary to the nature of a gatherer, and more ignoble and foolish than ants, 28.

R The same root, why it has different sprouts, 125, 126, 127. Reason and mind, 47, 48, 49. Religion and piety are the basis of the kingdom, 9. Resurrection: what Synesius thinks about it, 219.

A king ought to value free and frank speech, 2. Whence he is to be praised, 4. Laws ought to be for him according to his morals, 6. How he can be secure and free from plots, 8, 20, 50. A king ought to be his own master, 10, 11. How he should conduct himself toward relatives and friends, 11, 12. And how to associate with soldiers, 12, 13, 14, 21. He should present himself to everything, 20. He should not refuse labor, 13. He is the image of God, 8. He ought not to be hidden, 14, 15. He should remove mimes and that sort of man, 15. Which virtues are most becoming to him, 7, 8, 9. He should be warlike and peaceful, 26. He should survey the empire, 27. He should not exhaust his people with tributes, 28. He should be beneficent, 29. What he delights in, is affected by most [people], 31. A king greedy for money is much baser than a shopkeeper, 28. A king of foresight, as regards wealth, is not for himself but for others, 103. The appellation of king was admitted by emperors late, 19. A king's ears are hidden from most things, 125. Kings among the Egyptians were considered gods, 93. (If you desire many and illustrious things about a king and a kingdom, read the Oration on Kingship, 1, 2, 3 et seq.)

The royal body is not at all troubled by labor, 12. Royal dignity is a divine good among men, 19. Rhetoric and poetry, what branches, 1. Rhetoric is the art of painting over and of pandering, 86. The beaks of hawks and ibises, why they are sculpted in the vestibules of temples, 75. A blush for misdeeds belongs to modesty, 213. One who spreads rumors about false things is a sower, and a follower of Cotys, 184.

S Priest. What is the end/purpose of a priest, 199. Priests among the Egyptians and Hebrews were kings, 198, 258. Egyptian priests abhorred cilia and hair growing on the cheeks, 79. What is recommended to priests by Synesius, 167, 168. The administration of the priesthood and the republic [are] separated from God, 198. Ignorance adds authority to sacred things, 124. Sal ammoniac, 284. Those who deny that there is salted fish, 285. An excellent formula of salutation, 276. To know a great deal is an excellent conclusion in letters, 276, 277.

Who is a wise man, according to Pythagoras, 128. How a wise man ought to be affected, 249. His soul is dry, 138. He is joined to God by a certain relationship, 131. A wise man ought not to be a curious spectator of the world, 128. In what the struggle of the wise man consists, 45. It is wicked for a wise man to be among the great, when he cannot even be among the least, 45. Wise men are varied, 132. Wisdom is to be sought from everywhere, 111. Wisdom is considered added to the persuasion of inexperience, 179. If one has reached the peak of wisdom, he should remember he is a man, 44.

What is to be done by the wicked, let epistle 41 be read, p. 181, 182, and following. Wickedness is seductive, 178. The Eleatic school, what is called, 108. Who is to be called knowledgeable, 42. Knowledge is a deviation of the mind, 47. Scythians, invaders of Egypt, how expelled, 116, 117 et seq. What Herodotus says about them, 25. Authors of sedition, often the most powerful, 24. Seed consists in divine reason, 70. It is the duty of an elder to lead the way in offices of humanity, 278.

How the senses perceive, 136. External things are not properly senses, 138. They are fallacious, 138. Which is the crudest and animal sense, 136. The domicile of the senses resides in the imagination, 134. Speech is a certain shadow of things, 32. A servant of God, what he ought to be, 199. How he ought to be free from domestic business, 199, 200. Let him be alien to games, 217. Slaves by nature, who are winners of victory, are enemies of their masters, 21.

Figure of the stars, 71. The place and many other things about them, 73. What the circular paths of the stars and celestial spheres returning to the same part argue, 127.

Silenus, Bacchus's teacher, 68, 69. He was loved by Socrates, 69. The nature of monkeys toward their own offspring, 157. Like rejoices in like, 138. The art of images, 150, 151, 152. Sirens, why they are harried by the reproaches and curses of poets, 282.

Socrates feared greatly that he might be deceived, 2. He studied poetry in prison, 59. He did not seem wise to himself, although he was, 37. How placid he was, 58. Philosophy was seen [in him], 59. Not yet bald, how prone to anger, 81. How he is introduced to his beloveds, 263.

Encomium of the sun, 135. What great power dreams have, 136. That they are not false, 149. The two gates of dreams, 167. Who can be considered a sophist, 55. Why sophists are so called, 36. Plato disapproves of this appellation, 36. Two kinds according to Philostratus the Lemnian, 35.

Sophroniscus boasted of his resemblance to Silenus, 69. Two lots, 140, 141. Speculations and theorems are certain offices of the inferior mind, 47. Encomium of hope, 147. Why the image of the Sphinx was placed by the Egyptians in the vestibules of houses, and of what thing it is held to be a symbol, 7, 10. How versatile spirit is, 152. How an evil spirit can enter the imagination, 112. None of the stars is hairy; and what is their place, 13. Dull, stupid, and rude [people] are admitted even to the court as a gift, 15. Disparity of studies separates those who are progressing, 91. Suada is a sting in letters, 275. How votes were cast among the Egyptians, 93. They are corrupted by favor, 158. Superstition, how it differs from piety, 212. The use of supplications among the Egyptians, 121. When reverence is to be had for a suppliant, 183.

Synesius sent as an ambassador to the emperor, 1, 2. A lover of liberty, 56. Ingenious, 61, 62. He was bald, 63, 67. Devoted to hunting, 66. What his life was, 194, 195, 117. He refuses to abandon his country, 248. He does not approve of the resurrection, 219. He wrote Cynegetica, 239, 290. The luxury of the Syrians, 175.

T The virtue of temperance is misunderstood by some, 49. Description of a storm, 163, 164. Thebes, a metropolis of Egypt, 117. How many its gates, 120. Themistocles praised by the Athenians, 251. How grateful the memory of Theodore was to Synesius, 171. Theodosius the emperor, how he was raised to the empire, 25. Theologians are never bothered by the prodigies of fables, 32. Mysteries of the Theophany, 70. Thoas, companion of the wicked Andronicus, with him...

1745 INDEX RERUM. damned, 203. His evil deeds are touched upon, 234, 225. Thule, to whom it granted the power of lying with impunity, 287. Vagueness of fear is the greatest, being the fear of the laws, 158. Tragedians, the ridiculous actor, who is to be so called, 106. To exhaust cities with tribute is not royal, 27. Stone tunic, an Homeric imprecation, 16. Baseness is a greater ignorance, 52. Typhon, his character and hatred for his brother, 91 and following. His wife as a plague, 103. His luxury, 107. He conspires against his brother and drives him from the kingdom, 107 et seqq. He treats Egypt miserably, 111. He is finally driven out, 122, 123. The plan of occupying the tyranny, how it was suggested, 107, 108, 110. Tyranny is near to royal dignity, 6. In the character of royal virtue, 6. Tyrant, who is to be considered such, 6. Character as a substitute for laws, 6. U Ulysses and Polyphemus, the fable, 237. His industry, so that he would not perish in pleasures, 178. What profit he took from his wandering, 272. He is believed to still reign, 288. Shadow is nothing other than darkness, 75. The nature of the universe is a certain whole, 127, 132. Its parts are coupled by a certain mutual necessity, 132, 133. Unnigardai soldiers, 302. For one to resist many belongs to a stubborn spirit, 219. V Health, what kind of good it is, 75. One vessel is dishonored, another precious; a passage on this, 192. The praise of hunting, 286. Fantasy serves it, 148. To tell the truth is divine, 142. Commendation of modesty, 3, 213. Truth is the nobility of words, 2. Truth is accepted by God primarily, 250. It is by far the most divine of all good things, 1746 Victory, from whom it is to be expected, 120. It is not obtained except by the help of the gods, 116. Commendation of an honorable widow, 293. Nature does not allow base things to be associated with precious ones, 67. Virtue is near to vice, 6. Its struggle is to be initiated, 30, 31. It has a place even among the barbarians, 111. It is only prepared by labor, 123. It often anticipates favorable things, 4. Virtue and fortune, whether they ever meet, 101. The subject matter of virtue is the entire life of men, 106. The subject matter of virtue and wickedness is not the same, 166. Virtues necessary to a prince, but prudence most of all, 7. Virtues, according to some, are three in number: and how they are established, 49. Concerning them, several remarkable things, 50, 51. Power without prudence is useless, 101. Among mortals they barely agree, 242. Sight, why it is the most vacant of all senses regarding hair, 68. Our life is like a stage performance, 106. Life and light are believed to be in the series of good things, 75. Life according to the mind is the end of man, 274. Life tempered with sadness and bitterness is very useful, 387. Not to endure the condition of our life is a rule of ignorance, 107. The celestials hide life from mortals, 128, 131, 357. Former lives are preparations for the later ones, 137. Vice passes into nature, 183. The will is the root of all sayings and actions, 387. Sincere pleasure is necessary in acting, 45. Pleasures are sirens, 282. For those vomiting with difficulty, what physicians prescribe, 237. Knowledge of the vulgar, what it is, 131. The "vulgar eye" (as they answer) is the light of truth, 249. The vulgar have nothing in common with philosophy, 249, 274, 279. X Xantippe, though angry, did not move Socrates, 58. Z Zeno's porch was destroyed, 190, 279.

INDEX of the most notable matters occurring in the Notes on Synesius.

A Agē, what kind of speech, 16. Adespoton, what it is, 28. Akoulouhos, 13. Egyptian soldiers were foreigners, 59. Aeons of Valentinus, whether they were all hermaphrodites, 102. Aesculapius, various images of, 50. His hair elegantly described, 30. Agēre, what word it is, 40. Agapē, 15. Alexander of Basinopolis, 75. Alētheian, elegant use of the word, 16. Alum, schistose, 88. Ammonius, how he was admitted by Chrysostom after being excommunicated, 76, 77. Amphiaphalē, explanation of the word, 45. Amporaphēres, 13. Anancē, why the rites of Ceres are so called, 28. Anancaeum vessel, 51. Anastasius, Synesius's brother, 1. Anastasius, set in charge of the emperor's children, 50. Andronicus, condemned by Synesius, 4. Soul, according to Plato, is spherical, 29. Whence Plato proves the immortality of souls, 84. Anthemius, a distinguished man, 79. He falls ill, 80. Apocharin, what is meant, 41. And apocharis, 80. Apollonia, city, 46. Aquarii, 13. Arcadius the Emperor, his birth, 8. Archaion, what kind of elocution, 16. Soothsayers and prestidigitators, caphilos, 27. Aristenetus, colleague of Honorius, 86. Aristippus, his place of origin, 1. Decree-bearing arms, 40. Armentarius of Embrun, ordained by two bishops, 77. Arne boun, what word it is, 47. Arts are encouraged by a good reward, 37. Arsinoe, city, 46. Asterius, notary, 6. Astraea, her fellowship on earth, 4. Asymboli, who they are, 37. Athanasius, a certain man who forged Testaments with a scribe, 31. Atrium, parts of, 26. Birds, 45. Augurs, a famous family, 35. Augustalis, prefect. See Prefect. Aulaneum tribute, 79. Aurelianus, consul, 4, 6. Aurosa sand, 10. Gold, coronary, 7. Gold, tyronic, 79. Ausuriani and Austuriani, who they are, 89. Their raid, 89. Cruelty, 90. Azar mountain, and the Azari, 49. B Bacchus, why called dimētōr, 27. Balagritarum, leader, 81. Barbarians, under whose name they come, 10. Bassus, consul, 8. Battus, Lacedaemonian founder of Cyrene, 7. Baxea, what kind of footwear, 31. Berenice, city, 46. Library, what place it is, 26. Babē, what it is, 31.

INDEX OF MATTERS

^ANorthern peoples, 12. Bravium (prize), what it may be, 38.

C Spectacles provided on the Kalends themselves, 31. Bald men accustomed to being mocked at banquets, 24. Why they were so called, 30. Encomium of baldness, what sort of work it is, 21. The office of those singing in church, 19. Why singers were called *fabarii* (bean-eaters), 20. *Karchēdonios* (Carthaginian) is often confused with *Chalkēdonios* (Chalcedonian), 22. Carinus accepted by Synesius in place of Carus, and some notes on both, 10. A song sung by the Muses at the wedding of Peleus, 87. The fatherland of Carneades, 1. *Katabolē* (foundation/laying down), 17. *Katēcheis* (catechisms) / for a public address or homily, 89. Who are called *Katēchoumenoi* (catechumens), 89. Cathari, 77. *Kephalaion* (chapter) / of terms, 17. Iselastic games, 58. Clearchus the consul, 8. Whether the water-clock of the ancients is the same as ours: and the translation of its name, 20, 21. Two penalties inflicted on clerics in the lay communion, 20. *Korpuz* and *krupal* — what they are, 29, 30. Those who perceived the true nature of a comet, 30. How habitual is the term "communion," 61. Lay communion, by reason of wandering clerics, 76. "Foreign communion," what it is called by the ancient canons, 77, 78. How great is the consular honor, 86. Consular *palmata*. See Toga. Antithesis between a consul and an apparitor, 51. The two consuls of the East and the West, 86. Banquets held in temples among the Egyptians, 29. *Copadium* (a small piece of meat), 11. *Copides* (curved blades), 84. Pine or pitch-pine garland, 27. The use of gold garlands, 7. Of triumphant ones, 7. Those who believe that bodies can descend from heaven, to be judged as profane and deranged according to Ammianus, 30. Cottabus or *Cottabismus*, what kind of game it is, and how many types there are, 14, 15. The prize, 14, 15. Cotytto, goddess of the Chians, 35. *Chreia* (anecdote/saying), what it is, 17, 18. Critias the tyrant, 14. Cyrenaic and Centuripinan saffron, 87. Soft/effeminate men were present at the rites of Cybele, 33. Cyrene, what city it is and by whom founded, 1. Cyrene, calamity of, 6. What kind of colony, 7, 8. A brief description of the Cyrenaic tracts, 88. Cyrillus the bishop, 1.

D Eusebius asserts that demons are bound by obscure and barbaric words, 30. The punishment of the damned; what some think concerning it, 52. Dardanisticus, most wretched, 13. Dardanis, what town it is, 58. God is triple according to Plato, 29. The triple rank of the gods, 56. Custom of those in despair, 39. *Aporia* (difficulty), explained in various ways, 50, 51. *Diēgēmata* (narratives) are acts, 88. The ratio of the seventh day frequently considered among the ancients, 46. The complaint of Diogenes the Cynic, 13. Dioscorus the Dardanian, 58, 59. Dioscorus the excommunicate, how far he was admitted, 76. Dioscurius, son of Synesius, 3. The distinction between the Dorian and Phrygian modes, 25.

E The acceptance of the word *E*, 79. Who are the *Euthynoi* (scrutineers) among the Athenians, 19. Epaminondas, what kind of man he was, 11. Bishops not to be created in villages and small towns, 56. Some things concerning their constitution, 56, 57, 58. And concerning their penance, 59. Those who are called "wandering," 75. Formerly married, 83. Some appellations of bishops, 58. Why the letters of Synesius are spotted/mottled, 45. The ancient custom of adding these opening words to letters: "If you are well, it is good," 87. Nisaean horses, how famous they are, 5. Erythros, and concerning its bishop, 15. *Eudaimonia* (happiness) and *eutychia* (good fortune), what they are, 82. Eudoxus, and the hallucination of Synesius concerning him, 14. Evoptius, brother of Synesius, bishop of Ptolemais, 1, 3. Excommunication, whether if it is issued by metropolitans against clerics subject to them, it can be revoked by the same, 60. Exhomologesis (confession), what it is, 61. *Exonychizein* (to torture the fingernails), what it is, 21. *Exungulare* (to tear off the nails), what it is, 21.

F Rumor-mongers are hateful, 52. A foolish, insipid, and wicked person is called "vile-minded," 25. The *Foederati* under Constantine and Theodosius were called Goths, 12. *Furnarius* (baker), who is so called, 13. Galatian merchants, 13. *Philochoroi* (dance-lovers), who are so called, 31.

G The invasion of Romans by the Goths, 11, 12. Gratian stirs up the hatred of the soldiers against himself, 11. The similarity of the governance of all things, 56.

H Those seeking inheritance (*hæredipetæ*) are elegantly censured, 51. The progeny of Harmodius, 46, 47. Hector’s hair commended, against Synesius, 35. Who are the *Hieronikai* (sacred victors), 57. How far homicides are rejected from communion, 72. The birth of Honorius, 8. Honorius X and Theodosius VI consuls, 1. The decretory hour, 40. The answer of Horus concerning the war against Typhon to his parent Osiris, 40. Hypatia whose daughter she was, how great her learning, and how mournful her end, 1.

I How many images and in what places they were set up by the ancients, 26. The similarity of an emperor bestowing abundance on his people to the sun, 11. The Incarnation of Christ, whether it is solely useful to men, 52. An elegant inversion of words among the Greeks, 19. *Iynx*, what kind of word it is, 13.

J A certain wicked John, an excellent letter from Synesius to him, that he might pay for or clear away his crime, 51.

K Spectacles provided on the Kalends themselves, 31.

L Lamponianus the presbyter excommunicated, 59, 6. The Lares were in the bedrooms, 26. *Lata* and *latagē* (dregs/wine-drop), 15. Beds: some notes on these and their parts, 45, 46. The law about not obtaining a provincial prefecture in one’s own homeland, 79. Liberalities of Alexandria to the poor, 58, and of Rome, 59. *A* is taken for the sea, 89. The inventor of letters, 17. *Logos theios* (divine word), how it is received in matter, 27. A certain way of playing is to be retained, 16. When the exhibition of games took place, 51.

M Magic forbidden, 27. Who come under the name of evil-doers, and what their punishment is, 27. *Mēny* (the crescent moon), that it is a seal, 15. Imposition of hands. See Imposition. What is the proper matrimony of Christians, 3. The sustenance of beggars commended, 58, 59. Menelaus becomes a monk, 85. *Mikrokoralos* (a small coral), 9. Varied modulation is bent, and has a *plasma* (ornament), 23. *Mouseion* (museum) for library, 26, 27. The world and the soul of the world, two gods according to the mind of Plato, 29. Why the Muses are so called, 16.

N Nature not to be defamed, 86. Dangerous navigation around the moon's conjunction, 48. Nephtys, wife of Typhon, the first of all to be sterile, 28. He delighted in spectacles and luxury, 38. *Niceteria* (victory offerings), 37, 38. How Plato distinguishes *nous* (mind) and *dianoia* (reasoning), 19.

O The Lord’s Prayer, some passages concerning it, 9. An orator accustomed to be struck with a rod, so that he might finish, 2. Ordination of clerics, 77.

P Palaestrica (the gymnasium), 55, 56. Pandects, what they are, 82. *Paranomema* (transgression), what it is, 18, 19. Prytanea of the parasites, 37. Their garments, 38.

1749 INDEX AUCTORUM.

Pascha, on what day it was announced by Synesius, 2. Paschal letters of Theophilus the patriarch, 49. Paulus Erythrita, 55, 58. The controversy of the same person and Dioscorus the Dardanite, 58. What a hairy chest signifies, 25. What sort of man Pelopidas was, 11. The five cities of the Pentapolis, 46. The mutual fear of Perdiccas and Arrhidaeus, 35, 36. Strangers oppressed the Romans, 11, 12. Περιδέξιες, 15. [Original script column: see facsimile], 51. The shoes of philosophers, 31. Phoenix: what Aelian writes concerning it, 18. [Original script column: see facsimile], who was leader, 82. Those using felt caps turn grey sooner, 31. Pinocothera, whether it is the same as the tablinum, 26. [Original script column: see facsimile], what it may be, 31. [Original script column: see facsimile], what sort of magistrate, 12. [Original script column: see facsimile], what sort of forum, 12. Public penance, 59. Penance according to the customs of the ancient Church, 60. Paeonius, a friend of Synesius, 4, 6. Why it is not permitted to hold the prefecture in one's own country, even among the Sinae, 79. Prefectus Augustalis, 80, 81, 82. [Original script column: see facsimile], which stone, 12. The history of the Emperor Probus, 24. Πρόεδροι, 56. What the word proseucha means to the Latins, 40. The school of the protectors, 10. The Greek proverb, "to hunt the stag or the hare," do not read "the stag," 8. Another, for those who are cast out from an opinion against their will, or are held convicted, 25. Another from the Dorius to the Phrygian, 25. Another, "to the stag," etc., 85. Providence; why the books of Synesius concerning it are figurative, 34. Prytanea, which places they are, 37. Psaltrist women forbidden at drinking parties, 15. Psammetichus. Read Psammenitus, 31. [Original script column: see facsimile], what Theognis calls it, 23. [Original script column: see facsimile], or [Original script column: see facsimile] in the atria, what they signify, 26. The city of Ptolemais, 46, 58. Education of boys; a passage concerning it, 23. Golden dust, 10.

R Kings among the Romans from the Augural family, 55. Whether the resurrection was admitted by Synesius, 2, 3, 4. A certain kind of resurrection of the dead admitted by the Platonists, 81. Rhetoricians, compared with philosophers, are like slaves, 19. The twofold genus of rhetoric, 16. Ricimer consul, 8, 12. Whence the downfall of the Roman Empire flowed, 11, 12. A rose will become more fragrant if others are planted next to it, 42. Redness in the young is the color of virtue, 8.

S Observance of the Sabbath, 48. Priests once [were] with shaven hearts, except in funerals, 28. Priests who were participants in revels among the Egyptians, 29, 30. Communion was hardly granted to those guilty of sacrilege, 18. The wise man is an observer of the universe, 42. The Saracens adored Julian, 7. Who were called leaders of the Saracens, 82. The school of shorthand writers, 33. Whom Synesius calls by the name of Scholastics, 84. [Original script column: see facsimile], 15. Each man’s own writings deceive him, 44.

1750 A rather famous writer, for the most part filled with variety of readings and errors, 43. The rocks of Scylla, 47. Who were understood by the name of Scythians, 11, 12. [Original script column: see facsimile], what it is, 27. An opinion has no authority if the one to be condemned condemns, 81. The burden of the whip of Silenus, 27. Simonides praetor, 8. The familiarity of Simonides with Hiero is celebrated, 52. What it means to bury the sun, 18. What is called a "solox," 25. Sphere and spherical [matters] cultivated by the Egyptians, 30. Parts of grains not mutilated, 28. The word "sportula" is discussed, 37. [Original script column: see facsimile], who are so called among Plato, 23. Stilicho consul, 6. [Original script column: see facsimile], what it is, 20. Stratonice, sister of Synesius, 1. Who is called "structor" in Juvenal, 15. What Justinian calls "subadjuram," 88. Suffrages. Concerning suffrages in the creation of a bishop, 36. [Original script column: see facsimile], what [it is], 47. Life and writings of Synesius. (These are prefixed to the works). His oration *On Kingship*, to whom delivered; several things concerning his embassy; his boldness before the prince. See in the "Admonition" to the oration *On Kingship*. His corrupted passage is restored, 1.

T What "tablinum" and "tabula" mean among the Latins, 6. [Original script column: see facsimile], what city, 46. What kind of person Taurus was, 34. [Original script column: see facsimile], what, 10, 11. The death of Theodosius after two tyrants were defeated, 5, 8. Theon the famous mathematician, 1. Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, presided at the wedding of Synesius, 1, 3. [Original script column: see facsimile], the authority for ordaining [him] after the death of Chrysostom, 28. His booklet on Easter, 49. What business he entrusted to Synesius, 53. His enmity with Chrysostom, 55. Theramenes ordered to drink hemlock, 14. The dream of Thoas, 80. More concerning it, 80. Thrasymachus the Chalcedonian was not a Carthaginian, 22. [Original script column: see facsimile], 22. Ti, when with an interrogation, and when it should be read otherwise, 19. The use of the "toga picta," or the consularis palmata, 9. Τραπεζοποιός, 15. The imposition of tribute according to the Seleucids, and who were immune from it, 7. Trichedipna, 37, 38. Typho. Read the notes to book 2, 40, 41, etc. Ursus the prefect, 7.

U To what extent it is permitted for clerics to take wives among the Greeks, 83.

V Those who were called Vacantini, 75, 76. The death of the Roman Emperor Valentinian, 11. The magistrate of revenues among the Athenians, 12. Reading ancient codices and writers is necessary for literary matters, 86. What the appellation of "viaticum" means among the Fathers, 66. He who attributes his victory to a man who is well-prepared, detracts from the glory of God, 40. What hairiness may prove, 25.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

A Aelian is mistaken concerning Epaminondas, 22, 27. Concerning vultures, 29. Cited, 53, 14. Aeschylus, 28. Albricus, 30. Alcinous, 29. Alemannus, N., 86. Ambrosius, 38, 44. Ammianus, 11, 12, 34, 59, 89. Anianus, 37. Apuleius, 20, 21, 27, 28, 31, 33. Aratus, 41. Arati Schol. Latinus, 41. Aristides, 16. Aristophanes, 12, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 38. Aristophanis Scholiastes, 12. He sins against Aristotle, 38. Cited, 45. Aristoteles, 8 passim; 13, 16, 18.

19 passim; 20, 23, 25 twice, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 38, 49. Arrian, 17, 21, 22, 39, 49, 88. Arnobius, 26, 32, 33, 44. Artemidorus, 31. Asterius, 10, 12, 31. Athenæus, 13, 14, 15, 49, 52. Athenagoras, 47. Author of the book

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INDEX OF AUTHORS

^A Balsamo, 57, 58, 59, 76, 83. Budé, 58.

^B Callimachus, 18. Callistratus, 30. Camerarius, 9. Canon, Cantantes, 19. Canon apostol., 75, 76. Casaubon, 31, 37. Cassiodorus, 8, 10, 34, 35, 49, 79. Cedrenus, 22, 81. Chrysostom (St.), 8, 9, 10, 12, 37, 39, 46, 76, 84. Cicero, 14, 16, 29 twice, 44, 53, 54, 84, 85. Claudianus, 8, 12, 32, 54. Clemens Alexand., 7, 9, 17, 18, 22, 25, 29, 31, 33 twice, 34, 35 twice, 44. Codex Theod., 7, 80, 81. Codinus, 32. Columella, 25. Concil. Antiochen., 73. Concil. Arausic., 59. Concil. Arelat., 56, 57. Concil. Chalcedon, 58, 59. Concil. Carthag., 56, 57, 59. Concil. Constant., 58. Concil. Ephes., 1, 58. Concil. Gall., 79. Concil. Ilerdense, 78. Concil. Laodic., 56, 57, 76. Concil. Liptinense, 77. Concil. Neocas., 59. Concil. Nicænum, 56, 57, 76. Concil. Regense, 57, 77. Concil. Sardic., 56. Concil. Vernense, 75. Corippus, 10. Cornarius argued against, 15, 18. Cited, 31; note on [i]χεῖρον[/i], 54. Cornelius Nepos, 10. Cujas, 80. Curtius, 7, 52, 84.

D Demosthenes, 31, 41, 50. Didymus, 42. Dio Nicæus, 51. Dionysius (St.), 36. Dionys. Alexand., 41. Dionysius Exiguus, 76. A passage of Dioscorides concerning Cyrenaic crocus is cleared of errors, 86. Cited, 88.

E Ecclesiasticus, 46. Ennodius, 41. Epictetus, 37, 39 twice. Epiphanius, 83. Erasmus's conjecture concerning "envy" in place of "glory" is not approved, 86. Etymologicon, 45 thrice. Evagrius, what he says about Synesius, 2, 5. Euripides, [i]Phon.[/i], 14, 42. Eusebius, 14, 15, 22, 30 twice, 51, 55, 83, 89. Eustratius, 41. Eutropius, 11, 34.

F Felix, pope, 76. Festus, 15, 25. Fronto, in [i]Geopanicis[/i], 23.

G Galen, 18, 19. Gellius, 7, 32. Gregoras argued against, 9. Greg. Nazianzen, 8, 27, 31, 31, 46, 48, 53. Greg. Nyssenus, 9, 51, 52. Glossæ Isidori, 47. Glossarium vetus, 11, 13, 23, 31, 41, 47.

H Harpocration, 39, 41, 89. Heliodorus, 25, 27, 30, 40, 83. Heraclius, 16. Hermogenes, 17. Herodotus, 8, 13, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 52, 54, 88, 89. Hesiod, 36, 51. Hesychius, 13, 14, 20, 21, 23. It is corrected, 28. Cited, 28, 31. Hieremias, 83. Hierocles, 51. Jerome, [i]De orat. Dom.[/i], 9; [i]De parentalib.[/i], 46; [i]Contra Lucif.[/i], 59; [i]Contra Vig.[/i], 83; [i]De scriptor.[/i], 84; [i]Ad Salvianam[/i], 83. Hippocrates, 84. Hoeschelius, 75. Homer, 25, 30, 33, 33, 88. Horace, 18, 39. Hyginus, 30.

I Innocent I, 57. Iornandes, 12, 13. Isidore, 20, 35, 49. Isidore of Pelusium is corrected, 8. Cited, 83, 84 twice, 87.

J Josephus, 40. Jovius the Monk, 10. Junius, 47, 82. Justin the historian, 25, 54. Juvenal, 13, 22, 29, 33, 37.

L Laertius, 8, 9, 19, 28, 29, 32, 81. Lampridius, 10. Latinus Pacatus, 9, 11, 13. Leo the Great, 59. Livy, 54. Lycophron, 33. Lipsius, 40. Lucian, 17, 20, 23, 30, 32, 39. Lysias, 85.

M Macrobius, 36. Marcellinus, 34. Martial, 19, 25. Maximus Tyrius, 16, 51, 42. Meursius, 79, 88.

N Nicephorus the historian, 2, 5, 50, 81. [i]Notitia Orient.[/i], 47, 55, 83, 88.

O Optatus of Milevis, 59. Origen, 47, 52, 59. Orosius, 34. Orpheus, 16. Ovid, 28, 30.

P Paulus diaconus, 29. Pausanias, 30. Petronius, 11, 21, 24 thrice, 26. His passage is corrupted, 41. Phavorinus, 31, 45. Philo, 53. Philostratus, 15, 16, 23, 24. Photius, 2, 7, 19, 24, 46. Pindar, 34. Plato, 7, 8, 9 passim, 17, 18, 19 twice, 21 twice, 22 six times, 23 twice, 25 twice, 28, 29 twice, 32, 34, 35, 36 twice, 37, 38, 51, 81, 82, 84. Plautus, 12, 15, 13, 21 twice, 27, 31, 38, 39. Pliny, 7, 12, 20, 26, 32, 33, 46, 49, 87. Plotinus, 53. Plutarch, 10, 11, 18, 21, 25, 27, 28, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 44, 47, 51, 90. Pollux is corrected, 11. Cited, 11, 19, 25, 31, 44, 47, 56. [i]Pratum spirituale[/i], 4. Proclus, 29. Procopius, [i]eius vox╦ restituitur[/i] 12. Cited, 12, 13, 58. Prosper, 54. Ptolemy, 47, 49.

Q Quintilian, 44.

R Rambam, 47. Rosweyd, 84. Ruellius, 18. Rufinus, 44.

S Seneca, 30, 40, 86, 87. Sidonius, 12, 59. Sophocles, 47. Sophocles' scholiast, 47. Socrates, 8, 11, 34, 50 thrice, 76, 79. Refuted, 85, 87. Sozomen, 31, 50, 51, 76. Stephanus, 16. Strabo, 7, 12, 33, 35, 39, 46, 47, 51. Suidas, in the term [i]τεμάχη[/i] is faulty, 11. What he says about [i]σκύβαλα[/i] 12. Likewise, 13. Cited, 14. Argued against, [i]πρὸς τὴν εὑρεῖαν[/i] 19. Cited, 20, 27, 33, 40, 45, 50, 83, 88. Symmachus, 15, 37, 81.

T Tacitus, 55. [i]Talmudica digesta[/i], 47. Terence, 79. Tertullian, 3, 10, 46. Cited, 84. Themistius, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 57, 41. Theodoret, 9, 14, 88. Theognis, 17, 23, 87. Theophrastus, 19, 31. Thucydides, 13, 30, 35, 36.

U Ulpian, the interpreter of Demosthenes, is argued against, 51.

V Valerius Maximus, 25, 32. Valla, 53. Varro, 28. Virgil, 18, 30. Vitruvius, 26, 50.

X Xenophon, 8, 14, 25, 27, 38, 30, 41, 44, 49, 52.

Z Zeno of Verona, 46. Zonaras, 52, 57, 58, 59, 62, 76, 83, 84. Zosimus, 34.

1753 ORDER OF CONTENTS. ORDER OF CONTENTS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. 1754

THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA

SYNESIUS, BISHOP OF PTOLEMAIS

ON SYNESIUS, or his manner of life

ORDER OF CONTENTS

HOMILIES. 1562 Homily I. 1562 Homily II. 1563 CATASTASIS. 1566 CONSTITUTION OF SYNESIUS. 1574 SERMON ON THE GIFT OF AN ASTROLABE. 1578 HYMNS. 1587 Hymn I. 1587 Hymn II. 1591 Hymn III. 1593 Hymn IV. 1604 Hymn V. 1607 Hymn VI. 1610 Hymn VII. 1611 Hymn VIII. 1611 Hymn IX. 1614 Hymn X. 1615

ST. ARSENIUS THE HERMIT. 1615 Notice. 1615 DOCTRINE AND EXHORTATION. 1618 TO A TEMPTING MONK. 1621 APOPHTHEGMATA (only mentioned). 1623 NOTES to the Encomium on Baldness. 1623 Indices. 1753

END OF VOLUME SIXTY-SIX.