THE SYRIAC DIALOGUE “SOCRATES.” A STUDY IN SYRIAN PHILOSOPHY.1/ BY WM. ROMAINE NEWBOLD.
Read April 23, 1914.) In I858 Paul de Lagarde published in his “Analecta Syriaca” a short dialogue entitled “Socrates.” The only known copy is found in that precious Nitrian codex of the British Museum (Add. I4658) which also contains, besides other philosophical works, the only existing texts of the Bardaisanian “Book of the Laws of the Countries ” and ” The Oration of Melito before Antoninus Caesar.” Notwithstanding the unusual intrinsic interest of the “Socrates,” it has been, so far as I have been able to ascertain, quite...
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