Pylaemenes & Synesius of Cyrene

I had a large Egyptian rug — not the kind you put under a bedspread, but one fine enough to use as a bedspread itself.

Some letters dated last spring have just arrived from Thrace.

I have just sent you my treatise [A Eulogy of Baldness], written in Attic style and finished with care.

Here at last is that Anastasius [one of my dearest friends and an important courtier in Constantinople, tutor to the...

A man from Phycus — a harbor of the Cyrenaeans — brought me a letter written in your name.

I ask your friendship and protection for my dear Sosenas — born and raised amid learning, yet not meeting with the...

No, my dear Pylaemenes — I call the god who presides over our friendship to witness — I never dreamed of ridiculing...

Believe me when I say that I embrace Pylaemenes — soul to soul.

In Plato, we see Socrates, already advanced in years, still pursuing his intellectual passions.

I have two letters in circulation addressed to you: I am writing to both Thrace and Isauria at the same time, hoping...

Know that the definitions of geometry are infallibly true.

I received your letter in which you again accuse Fortune of mistreating you.

I believe that even in your Heraclea, no one is ignorant of the name of our fellow countryman, the philosopher...

Tell me: do you still stand firm in philosophy — the Pylaemenes I left behind, the newly initiated soul, the divine...

You are quite right to return to the capital.

A letter arrives from you once a year, as though the seasons themselves deliver it.