SYNESIUS of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais. Epistolae. Greek text and Latin translation by Thomas Naogeorgus. [48], [17]-515 pages * PHALARIS of Agrigentum. Epistolae doctissimae. Greek text and Latin translation by Naogeorgus. 253, [3] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, early 19th-century German paste-paper boards, worn; light marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered light foxing; Neander Library bookplate. Late 17th-/early 18th-century ownership inscription in Greek and Latin of Christoph Thieler on first title, Latin poem by him addressed to Wolf Abraham Gerhard on rear flyleaf. Basel: Joannes Oporinus, (1558); (1558)
first naogeorgus editions of the letters of the Neoplatonist Synesius (d. circa 414), and the letters attributed to the 6th-century B.C. Sicilian tyrant Phalaris and shown by Richard Bentley to be forgeries. Thomas Naogeorgus or Kirchmair (circa 1508-63) was a Protestant cleric known for his Latin plays attacking the papacy. Adams S2208 and P976; Hoffmann III, 465 and 54.
