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Headword:
*suriano/s
Adler number: sigma,1662
Translated headword: Syrianos, Syrianus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Alexandria: philosopher, Isocratean,[1] leader of the school and sect in
Athens and a teacher of
Proclus, who also became his successor.[2] He wrote a commentary on the whole of
Homer in seven books; four books on the
Republic of
Plato; two books on the
Theology of Orpheus;
About the gods in Homer;[3]
Harmonisation of Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato in respect of oracles, ten books; and other works of exegesis.[4]
[Note] that Isidore the philosopher, so
Damascius says, "when examining everything said by the ancients, was relentless in the pursuit of utmost accuracy; and he applied his mind particularly, after
Plato, to
Iamblichus -- and of course to
Iamblichus' friends and followers."[5] "Of whom he used to insist that the best was his own [fellow-]citizen
Syrianus, the teacher of
Proclus. He saw fit to disregard no-one for the collecting of true knowledge."[6]
*suriano/s, *)alecandreu/s, filo/sofos, *)isokrati/wn, h(ghsa/menos th=s e)n *)aqh/nais sxolh=s te kai\ diatribh=s kai\ dida/skalos geno/menos *pro/klou, o(\s kai\ dia/doxos au)tou= e)ge/neto. e)/grayen ei)s *(/omhron o(/lon u(po/mnhma e)n bibli/ois e(pta/, ei)s th\n politei/an *pla/twnos bibli/a te/ssara, ei)s th\n *)orfe/ws *qeologi/an bibli/a du/o, [ei)s ta\ *pro/klou] *peri\ tw=n par' *(omh/rw| qew=n, *sumfwni/an *)orfe/ws, *puqago/rou, *pla/twnos peri\ ta\ lo/gia bibli/a de/ka: kai\ a)/lla tina\ e)chghtika/. o(/ti *)isi/dwros o( filo/sofos, w(/s fhsi *dama/skios, pa/nta ta\ tw=n palaiw=n e)ceta/zwn ou)k a)ni/ei pro\s to\ a)kribe/staton: prosei=xe de\ to\n nou=n e)s ta\ ma/lista meta\ *pla/twna tw=| *)iambli/xw|, kai\ toi=s *)iambli/xou fi/lois dh\ kai\ o)padoi=s. w(=n a)/riston ei)=nai dii+sxuri/zeto to\n e(autou= poli/thn *suriano/n, to\n *pro/klou dida/skalon. a)tima/zein de\ ou)de/na h)ci/ou pro\s sunagurmo\n a)lhqou=s e)pisth/mhs.
Notes:
Rhetorician and Neoplatonist philosopher of the C5 CE (succeeded
Plutarch of
Athens [
pi 1794] as head of the Academy in 431/2). See generally OCD4 s.v.
[1] The term (ostensibly a present participle) is otherwise unattested and may well be corrupt (as well as inappropriate); Adler's apparatus tentatively suggests
*swkratiko/s.
[2] cf.
pi 2473.
[3] The immediately preceding phrase
ei)s ta\ *pro/klou is generally deleted as an intrusive marginal gloss.
[4] Including the only ones extant: commentaries on
Aristotle's
Metaphysics and two rhetorical treatises of
Hermogenes (OCD).
[5]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr.77 Zintzen (33 Asmus).
[6]
Damascius fr.77 Zintzen continued (36 Asmus); cf.
sigma 1425.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 August 2006@08:05:29.
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