08-15-2007, 08:03 PM
I reached the year 406 in the correspondence of Synesius of Cyrene. This includes 405, in which Libyan tribesmen besieged Cyrene (Ep.125, Ep.132, Ep.130). The Cyrenean general who lifted the siege, Diogenes, ran into troubles when he was charged with fraud; in 406, Synesius sent several letters of recommendation to friends in Constantinople, of which Ep.131 is the most interesting, as it refers indirectly to the siege.
