INTRODUCTION.

long and most interesting extract regarding that treatise, taken from Synesius' work On Dreams Synesius of Cyrene (c. 373–414 AD) was a philosopher-bishop who integrated Neoplatonic thought with Christianity; his work On Dreams discusses the nature of the soul..

I will only add that many of the Sentences original: "Sentences"; here meaning a collection of moral aphorisms or short philosophical maxims (from the Latin sententiae) of Demophilus can be found among those attributed to Sextus. This is not at all surprising, as it was a common practice among the Pythagoreans—due to their high ideals of friendship—to consider the work of any single member as the collective production of them all The Pythagoreans lived by the motto "friends have all things in common," which extended even to their writings and discoveries..