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'Oh, hear us, my father! Why not go to Euodius? He is your old comrade a well-wisher, too, to this.... this expedition.... And recollect, Augustine must be there now. He was about to sail for Berenice, in order to consult Synesius and the Pentapolitan bishops, when we left Carthage. And at the name of Augustine the old man paused. 'Augustine will be there; true. And this our friend must meet him.
About ten o'clock the next morning, as Hypatia, worn out with sleepless sorrow, was trying to arrange her thoughts for the farewell lecture, her favourite maid announced that a messenger from Synesius waited below. A letter from Synesius? A gleam of hope flashed across her mind. From him, surely, might come something of comfort, of advice. Ah! if he only knew how sorely she was bested!
"A thing of price is man," wrote Synesius about 410 A.D., "because for him Christ died." The two things go together Jesus' death and Jesus' Theocentric thought of man. It is a familiar criticism of idealists and other young hearts, that it is easy to idealize what one does not know. "Omne ignotum pro magnifico" is the old epigram of Tacitus.
Rendel Harris, "can sing, 'How sweet the name of Logos sounds." Synesius of Cyrene did try to sing it, but most human beings prefer St. Bernard or John Newton. The inner significance of each term will point to the real experience of the man using it. He employs a metaphor, a simile, or a technical term to explain something.
Whence came this new conscience to me I know not, but come it has; and I dare no more do a base thing toward her, than I dare toward a God, if there be one. This very mortgage I hate it, curse it, now that I possess it the tempting devil! 'Burn it, said Synesius quietly. 'Perhaps I may. At least, used it never shall be. Compel her?
Under the reign of the younger Theodosius, the polite and eloquent Synesius, one of the descendants of Hercules, filled the episcopal seat of Ptolemais, near the ruins of ancient Cyrene, and the philosophic bishop supported with dignity the character which he had assumed with reluctance.
But the visits of Synesius were few and far between; the distance between Carthage and Alexandria, and the labour of his diocese, and, worse than all, the growing difference in purpose between him and his beautiful teacher, made his protection all but valueless. And now Aben-Ezra was gone too, and with him were gone a thousand plans and hopes.
Two or three minutes more of breathless silence brought them to the edge of the hill, where Synesius halted, peered down a moment, and then turned to Raphael, his face and limbs quivering with delight, as he held up two fingers, to denote the number of the birds. 'Out of arrow-range! Slip the dogs, Syphax!
'Synesius to the Philosopher: 'Even if Fortune cannot take from me all things, yet what she can take she will. And yet of two things, at least, she shall not rob me to prefer that which is best, and to succour the oppressed. Heaven forbid that she should overpower my judgment, as well as the rest of me!
'It is a freak of cowardly superstition.... Those Christians have been frightening him about his sins and their Tartarus. She looked again into his bright, clear, fearless face, and was ashamed of her own calumny. And this was the end of him of Synesius of Augustine of learned and unlearned, Goth and Roman .... The great flood would have its way, then.... Could she alone fight against it?
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