Letters 80–105

Summary: Synesius, powerless after the loss of his sons, asks Hypatia to use her influence for two young relatives seeking to recover their property.

• Addressed to Hypatia. 'Who has bereft me of many good sons' is Priam's line in Homer, Iliad 22.44; 'Long ago the Milesians were brave' is a proverb (Aristophanes, Wealth 1002).
• Stray OCR characters before the proverb are removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: stray characters): -ι.-. τ - «τος ὧὦν παν παρ Ὁ Ὁ → .

Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 22.44 (Homer, Iliad; quotation)

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 80 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/80). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius recommends Gerontius as a man of learning and devotion.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 81 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/81). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius recommends Gerontius to Chrysus, punning on his name.

• The pun is on Chrysus's name (chrysos, 'gold'); 'Gorgianic' refers to the showy style of the sophist Gorgias.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 82 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/82). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: A short letter commending Gerontius as one who can report all of Synesius's news.

• The end of the letter was replaced in the scan by Migne's Latin translation, which is removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): 1118, οἵ ἴὰ πι6 δ᾽ ἴδηι πὶ θοπυπὶ ἈρΡΟ᾽ᾶγ68, ροίθῃ- ΡΓβι δη} θ8ἰτ] [υν6 65, οἱ οοζηδιϊ, φυοπιδἀπιοάμπι → ….

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 83 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/83). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: A note of greeting sent with Gerontius.

• Migne's Latin translation at the end of the letter is removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): : ' 8.012π|, οὐ οὐτερίο Οοτοηίίο, 4ι88 δὰ (6 βογὶ μθὶ τοσογιδίίοηὸ γίναγα, ταῦ ᾿π|ἰη1118 ΠΠ|6τ}8 ον άθη- 4εξὸ → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 84 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/84). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Another short letter introducing Gerontius.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 85 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/85). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius recommends the paymaster of the Dalmatian troops stationed at Ptolemais.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 86 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/86). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius complains that no letter from Pylaemenes came with the spring post from Constantinople.

• The letter breaks off at the end of the scan text.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 87 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/87). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius, bishop in a war-torn land, tells a friend that only one of his three sons survives.

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 88 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/88). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius tells Theophilus that the fallen governor Andronicus, whom he had excommunicated, now deserves pity, and that he has protected him.

• Exalting the humble and humbling the exalted recalls Luke 1:52; weeping with those who weep, Rom 12:15.
• A line of Migne's Latin translation and three marginal variants are removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: marginal variant and Latin translation printed in the text; OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): δηΐθα ἴαείοναι, εἰ πιο ῥθΐμιγ ἱηλαείδαν. δυδὲ ἢ) → ; {70. πρότερον μὲν εἴο ἰτϊθυπδιὶ ἀειγαχίπιιβ, ἃς οί ἰπ γοῦθυθ ἰθ- 408 ἴδἃ ἐπὶ ρἱοίδα οὐγα δ. δο᾽ οἰ ἰυάΐμο ἀΐρολ-. 48. νῦν δὲ ἀδ.] → ; [7ρ.. ἔθος] → ; [7}. ὅτε] → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 89 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/89). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius explains that as bishop he must now help those of his city, and recommends his companion Martyrius.

• Lines of Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek are removed; a phrase is lost.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): - 85 οιπηΐ φυοδαπιπιούο δἰ οἰν [διὸ Δ ΟΥΓΟηΒ, εἰ δά- Η]ῖοΘ ππίνεγβα εἰν δῖα, αἱ οἱ νάογα οἱ υἱάθγὶ αὖ [15 → … ; Β ξαιιοιιἷβ δοοίΐ8. Ουδγὸ δἱ φιιὰ ἷἱμ τὸ Μανίγεῖο, 4υδηι → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 90 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/90). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: A brief, obscure note on Synesius's rustic plain-speaking.

• The sentence is garbled in the scan text and translated by sense. A marginal variant printed in the text is removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): [7)». τῶν τρόπων " λίαν] → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 91 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/91). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius asks an old fellow-student, now an official, to strike his brother Euoptius's family off the list of those liable for council burdens.

• The opening concerns Themistocles, who said he would never hold an office in which his friends would have no advantage over strangers (Plutarch, Themistocles 5). 'Things equal to the same thing are equal to one another' is Euclid's first common notion; the friends had studied geometry together (under Hypatia).
• The beginning of the letter is lost. Lines of Migne's Latin translation and a marginal variant are removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): [γρ. ξαυτῷ] → ; ( ἰτπυρετίυπι ἰάπηεπ οπὴμ6 ἀείγοθοϊδυδὶ, ἰὰ 400 κπἰ ιἾ]α → ; Ὁ 6869 ἰπίο᾽ 56 π66880 εδὶ. ἡ οι εἰ αἰξιαεπίίαπι π6 → .

Extrabiblical texts: Plutarch, Them. 5 (Plutarch; allusion)

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 92 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/92). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius congratulates a general on a success near Cyrene and recommends to him the brothers John and his brother.

• 'Motherland, as the Cretans say' recalls Plato, Republic 575d. 'The message' renders a word garbled in the scan (ψήρην).
• A passage of Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek is removed, as is a marginal variant; a few words are lost.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): υἱίμδια ἰδπι αἰ! φοπιΐς ργβιηνίυην ἃ θ60, οἱ ἰπ Νὰπι ἰπ ὑποηυοηι βιιο 6588 ἔι0, τι ΐ ΟΠμΠ68 5 ΓΆδ0π|, Π8π| (ΓΙ 58η16 υ1ἱ 88 βαγαγεῖ; πος δἰϊοηιΐ ἰῃἀΐα. Ουοὰ 5ἱ εΠὶ οἰΐαπι υἱθονέϊυν, γί πὶ δβίο. 50τ Γη 8118 4.338 πιθυδβ εἰἰ9 δά πιὸ τοΐραὶ, ρῃγθς!δρᾶιο → … ; [γρ. στρατευσαμένου,Ἶ͵ → .

Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Resp. 575d (Plato (works); allusion)

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 93 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/93). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius tells his brother that Julius, whom he saved from a charge of impiety, has been speaking ill of them.

• Addressed to his elder brother Euoptius. The letter breaks off at the end of the scan text; Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek is removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting προστάγμασιν): Οποά ἴὰ πιοηῤαεξῖβ τυΐο ΟὈΡΟΠΊρΟΓΑΓΘ πο5 δγοίέγα- 0 → ; -οὐάδιη ἰΘΠΡΟΓ οἱ ἰ0.88 660 [ἰΠ16 ΓΔ 8 ἰεφοῦαπι, οἱ δὺ → ; οοριγασία οπιπία, ἴδπὶ Ἰορῖ856 4υδην δυιάΐδεο «ιὴ ἀϊ- ἢ → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 94 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/94). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: The opening of a letter on Synesius's reluctant acceptance of the episcopate; the rest is lost.

• The wording repeats Letter 11; the letter breaks off at the end of the scan text.

Topics: Church office

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 95 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/95). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius rejoices at a friend's recovery; a second letter to the same friend thanks him for his kindness to Secundus and his letters.

• The scan text runs two letters together; the second begins 'To the same' (its Petau number is not given in the text). The second breaks off at the end; Passage 97 may be its continuation.
• Many lines of Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek are removed; gaps are marked '…'.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting πολλαπλασίαν; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting ὄψεσθαι; OCR: Migne's Latin heading 'Eidem' leaked into the Greek): Ουαι ορίδιοἰδεη ἰοβόγοια, ἰπ αὐ φρτίσάΐμοπι ἐχ- ΤῸ βοδίι αν, υἱ ἃ ποδίβ δυὶ τ᾿ δηΐ δυὶ ρορίογαπίυτ, → ; Ὁ τηϊιοπέυν δὐὶ Ῥογίογθηίθε. ῬΟΥΓΟ αυῇδ ἴη Βθδῖγὰ βίη → … ; εἰπιοξ Εἰ υἰϊρδι δἰ φυδηάο πιιυῶ σοπβμείυάἀΐμα ξδυβνησο. → … ; αυδιῃ 97 πο ἰηίεῖ πο υἱάδγίθαδ ὶ δίη αἰϊυὰ θ90Ὸ → ; τίβυπι Γυδγὶϊ, τὰ γ ΓῸ οἰΐδη αὐθοβεῖβ ποβιγὶ γεοογάδγ. → ; Εἴαειι. → ; - θυδιο πιὸ ρυΐδα εἰεἰεὨέοιν δυδνίδδίιηδ8 [641 586 Νιπάσῃ → ; - ΓΗ εδιάϊεδε Εχ αυΐθῦδ υδγῆθ δὺπὶ → ; ιποιΐα «Πεοίαο; πὸ ἰονᾷο ροδὲ ἰθπιροῦθ δρΘΓῸ π|6 → ; - ΑἸαχδιόεῖδπι δπίευπι δάδας ποδὶ μανοηίδιῃ οθριὶ → ; 666 ΥνἱοιΡαπι. Νπὶ νοὶ ἴὰ ἐδ θυειιπάο "686 66 → ; τροτίυ5, 68 τὰ πὶ Βοπογθῖ ἐγ δοὶδεϊ, εἰ φυοὰ δόθο → ; ἰιοπογίδεο δοεὶ ἐδ, τη (ἰδὲ ροηΐέωθ ἀονίπνοίαπι, δὲ → ; ἴυυτὸ το ει, φαδηάοφυϊάοπι ἰνυονὶ ποα γαρεβίθβ. → ; ἰδηίῶ Γαΐ πιορίτπὶ ΒΟ} δθηοθοίαν5, οὔδα ἀυρ! ἰοἷ → ; [ῖ6΄ ΒΟΒΟΡΆΒΝΌΡ, δὲ ΘΟΓΙΙ 402 δεεί Βυηίαν βιαρείϊυ- → ; ἀΐπο, οἱ ὁογυπι 4ι88 (Δοίἃ διπὶ βίυάἀϊο ἃς αἰ! ξοηιΐδ. → ; οιπἶπο πι60 Οἀοπιὶιὶ θοεὶρδὶ φυϊάδαι οἰ ἰϊ85 βξρε; → ; δορὰ ᾳυοπίδι ἴω Πἰπιονὶ5 4186 Ρ6Ρ ρυδΓΌμ πιἰεἰδίΐ, → … ; πιοὸ [γαϊτί [ΠπΠ|6Γὰ5 δὰ δὐπὶ ἀοάϊΐ, ἱποοϊυαν}5 υοδίυθ- → ….

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 96 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/96). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: A fragment asking for prayers and mentioning a possible journey to Alexandria.

• A fragment, perhaps the end of the second letter in Passage 96; Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek is removed.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting γραμμάτων): φυδηίμδλ ρδ: θεὲ δύ ᾿δῦδεθ, φυὶ ἀϊνία! ουὐυξύδαι → … ; - Βριβεοϊαγ) που ᾿θὸ ἃ πον ἰπὲῖδ Καιδο. 6θ.. Θδὲ, δὶ οὴ νοῦ Τίιθοίϊπιθ, δοὲ Τιδοιΐηνυπι νο θὲ β → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 97 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/97). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius offers the poet Theotimus as a gift to a powerful friend, since great deeds need poets to make them remembered.

• Theotimus is the poet of Letter 49. Lines of Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek are removed, as is a marginal variant.

Notes on the original text

• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting πράττεσθαι; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting σπουδαστέον; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting ἀνθρώπους; OCR: marginal variant and Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): [70. τις ἂν} Ἰασγο ἔμυγαπι δοηθο, αἴκεια ὀΐοο. θὅδὰ οο πἰιηΐγωπι π΄ → … ; Ν4 86 Βαβοί,. δἱ οἱ υἱγ [1186 δὲ οπηπίαπι, φυΐ υἱνυὴν → ; μοάϊΐα, ροοίδτυπι ἀἰνὶ πἰθβίηδηδ, οἱ ροθίϊοδ. νί ορυβ. → ; φυϊερίδει μδεὶ, υἱ οἱ μοβίδγίβ {ΠΠθιγὶβ υἱάθωίυμπ, → ; οὐ πὸ δὐβοι μα φυάάθηι εἰι ἱξποίυβ. Εἰοοἶπι ργθεία-ὀ → ; τα. ΒΆ αυθηυ ἰδοίπογα, 5ἱ ογαϊυπί8 ΘΙ'Θ Θ᾽ ἐἀγοαηὶ ργα-ὀ → ; - «οηΐο, 6 πιδπιοῦΐα ὀχοίάπηι, οἱ οδϊἑνίοῃθ δερεὶ υη- → ; ἀμ, ΡΟ ἰά δοίσιη, αὖ βοῦυπίιγ, ἰοπριι5 δρυὰ → ; - ῬΡΙΘΡ θρὲπὶ οδίδμιη; γοδῖδ [θα σοπμπιοάσπι τθα- → ; βοὶ (δοϊομόυπι δὶ, Δ. νοὶ δἶγα. ῃθθουβ αίοπι βυπ- → ; γηο΄ διυάΐο οοπιριθοξεπάυπι. ΝᾺπι ον Μυβᾶγυπι γ- → ; 40Γ6, ηυὶ δὰ ᾿ϊαιίπα Ῥτϊποίρυπι δά μ]δηἋϊ μεγὶε! νθ- → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 98 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/98). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius introduces Anastasius to a friend and asks their help in obtaining release from curial duties so that he may have philosophic leisure.

• A line of Migne's Latin translation is removed; the letter breaks off at the end.

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• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): ὄυπι θοηὶ πιϊπὶ αἰϊφυΐά οοποὶ αν ροβδίεἰ8. Οὐαὶ Ὁ → .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 99 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/99). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius thanks Pylaemenes for a much-admired letter, promises to send his trivial hunting pieces, and describes his solitary philosophic life in Libya.

• 'Adorn the Sparta that fell to your lot' is from Euripides' Telephus (fragment 723). The 'Hunting' pieces are lost writings of Synesius.
• Lines of Migne's Latin translation that broke into the Greek are removed, together with several marginal variants; the end of the letter is lost.

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• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): ὧδ πορο δίων; οἰδιπηαῦο Οπθουηι δὲ ἴῃ ΕΙυγα 8ρ6οἰδουϊυαι οοποι οὶ, ὀδηι απ 5 ομηηΐ "5 υἱ δι ΕΤι.ἀΐιδ8 "πο Γὰ5 δυάϊοπάδβ οθηνεηίγοπι. ἐλ πης ΡΥ → … ; [7. ἄρξασιν, ἣ ἄρχουσιν] → ; [Ὀ». ἐμαί] → ; [7}. πάντως γε ὁ θ.] → ; [γ}. ἀτενίζειν) → ; α ἴδ γᾶ 8 δινΐπιὶ ἀ0465, ἰοηξα Βυϊηδηϊββίπιπι 6556, δὶ ἰῃ ΒΘ ἴδῃς 6886 ΡΟ! ἰοΏοη οοιηραγδίδηι, βοά υἱ πιΐ δὲ Ταγυ πὶ ΠΊΘΑΓΙΠ) 5. Δί. Π| ΠΟ886, μιΔ ἱπίθγθδδθ ρι!88, νἱάθος ος π|60 [10 [ὉΓ6 φοηίθηΐϊιδ, πιο 4ι16 ρᾶ-. → ….

Extrabiblical texts: Euripides, fr. 723 (Euripides (plays and fragments); quotation)

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 100 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/100). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: A fragment of a letter of recommendation.

• Only a few words of the Greek survive among lines of Migne's Latin translation, which are removed.

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• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek): Οοιμπιοπὰο δην οἰ βία ραιγοοϊπίοηθε ἔπο οργαβίιπε → ; οἱ δέϊι!ο, ἐοτίυ πα ποαυδίμιᾶπι ρΡῸ ἡπογῖἰ8 γοβροα-ὀ → … .

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 102 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/102). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius assures Pylaemenes that he did not mock his love for Heraclea, but urged that philosophy would make him more useful to it than the law courts.

• Pylaemenes, a friend from Constantinople, came from Heraclea (Pontica). The 'right and noble' rhetoric recalls Plato's Phaedrus.
• This letter is badly interleaved with Migne's Latin translation; the Latin is removed by many logged corrections, and a few words are lost. A marginal variant is removed. The letter breaks off at the end.

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Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 103 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/103). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius mocks John the Phrygian, a long-haired braggart who feigned illness while the enemy threatened, talked grandly of tactics, and then fled at full gallop at the first sight of the barbarians.

• 'No long-haired man but is a fop' is a proverbial line from comedy; 'robbers of lambs and kids among their own people' is Homer, Iliad 24.262. The Balagritae were local troops from Balagrae. The story is told ironically: John's fine horsemanship is shown in his flight.
• This letter is heavily interleaved with Migne's Latin translation and with a Greek explanatory note on the proverb about Phrygians (Migne's annotation); these are removed by logged corrections, and gaps are marked '…'. The letter breaks off at the end.

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Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. 24.262 (Homer, Iliad; quotation)

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 104 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/104). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

Summary: Synesius, elected bishop of Ptolemais, tells his brother (and through him Theophilus) why he feels unfit for the office: he loves leisure and amusement, will not give up his wife, and holds philosophical views on the soul, the world, and the resurrection that differ from popular belief.

• Written ca. 410 and meant to be shown to Theophilus of Alexandria, who was to ordain him. 'Lest, having sinned against God, I win honour from men' is a line of Ibycus quoted by Plato, Phaedrus 242c–d.
• Synesius's refusal to separate from his wife, and his statements that the soul exists before the body, that the world will not perish, and that the resurrection is 'something sacred and ineffable' not to be taken in the popular sense, together with his view that falsehood is useful to the people, are translated exactly as written; he was nonetheless ordained.
• A passage of Migne's Latin translation and several marginal variants that broke into the Greek are removed; a few words are lost. The letter breaks off at the end of the scan text. Many OCR slips (e.g. ἀδύνατα printed as ὄδννατά) are translated by sense.

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• Digital text corrected (OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek; OCR: Latin translation column leaked into the Greek, splitting ἀπόδειξιν; OCR: marginal variant reading printed in the text): ΒρδαίᾳΓα σοδυθηΐβ; βοὰ 4ιθμ δἰ ᾿α᾽ υθπιοάϊ, ἃ πι6 τι οαἴ, 56 ὲ οῃ ργλτιῖ5 Δ Ια τ08, χ6 ᾳμα τε θέμια ἀΐφηαυβ δὺ [15 εχ βιϊπιου, 4ιιΐ δηΐων ἰθου δῖθπι πα ΐαἱ λά πιαθιἐἰ2πὶ 5ἷῖ οοπιροβίιυδ, οἱ δὰ ηυ}18πὶ νὸ- Β → … ; [7Ρ. ἀπἀγόντων] → ; [γρ. ἐμαυτὸν] → ; γρ. με ἕλκχ.], → ,; [7». τά τε ἔνδον] → ; [70. ἔρηται] → ; Α 5υπὶ 5815, οἱ δι Ἔχί6ΓΠΔ διμοοτα ΠΘΙ6Ο, θη βοαια → ; - Β ηυοὰ εβο δοουιβᾶτὶ πιδρίιο ροβδίμι ἢ ΜΙΝ ἰρίυν οἱ → ; [ψρ. ψεύδους] → ; θοὺ8 ρθε, οἱ ἰοσ, οἱ βᾶογα ΤἬΘΟΡ ΙΝ τηδη08 1χ0-'εδηάσηι; ἃ. ρίαγα 88η6 6ἃ ἐδ τὸ ἀἰδρυῖϊδθο.. Νανε → ; ὦ οοίοτδ οἴηπία. αἱ 4υἷ8 οὐπὶ ΒΟ6 ὕπ0 οοπίυϊεννέ, → .

Extrabiblical texts: Plato, Phdr. 242c-d (Plato (works); quotation)

Topics: Church office, Marriage

Cite (SBL): Synesius, Ep. 105 (PG 66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/synesius-epistulae/105). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Greek of Migne's Patrologia Graeca (archive.org / library-scan OCR; Migne's Latin and variants removed by logged corrections); no public-domain English translation exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.