Synesios (of Cyrene)

Japanese: シュネシオス[キュレネの]（英語表記）Synesios

370-413
He was the bishop of Ptolemais, a city in Cyrenaica (present-day eastern Libya) in North Africa. Born to a noble family in Cyrene, the center of the Pentapolis region (Libya Superior), he studied rhetoric and Neoplatonic philosophy under the female philosopher Hypatia in Alexandria, then returned to his estate to spend his days reading and hunting. In 399 he was sent to Constantinople to petition for tax reduction in Libya, and, with the help of a leading anti-Germanic figure, he delivered a speech on monarchy before Emperor Arcadius.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

370ころ‐413
北アフリカ，キュレナイカ地方(現在のリビア東部)の都市プトレマイスの司教。ペンタポリス地方(リビア･スペリオル州)の中心キュレネの名家に生まれ，アレクサンドリアで女性哲学者ヒュパティアらに師事して修辞学と新プラトン主義哲学を学んだのち，所領に戻り読書と狩猟の日々を過ごす。399年リビアに対する減税陳情のためコンスタンティノープルに派遣され，反ゲルマン派有力者の仲介を得て，アルカディウス帝の前で君主政論の演説を行った。

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