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These testimonia are ancient statements about Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234–c. 305 AD), the Neoplatonist philosopher, rather than works of his own. The short set includes the entry in the Suda, the Byzantine lexicon, which calls him a philosopher from Tyre who lived from the time of Aurelian to Diocletian and lists some of his many writings, and passages of Eunapius and Theodoret on his History of Philosophy.
The Suda's list of titles, which includes the History of Philosophy in four books, Against the Christians in fifteen books and works on Homer, Pindar and Thucydides, shows the range of Porphyry's output, much of which is lost. These brief notices are a starting point for anyone reconstructing his life and writings.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 260 T 1, 4a–b). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).