[Footnote 25: For Theon and his daughter Hypatia. see
Fabricius, Bibliothec. tom. viii. p. 210, 211. Her article
in the Lexicon of Suidas is curious and original. Hesychius
(Meursii Opera, tom. vii. p. 295, 296) observes, that he was
persecuted; and an epigram in the Greek Anthology (l. i. c.
76, p. 159, edit. Brodaei) celebrates her knowledge and
eloquence. She is honorably mentioned (Epist. 10, 15 16, 33
- 80, 124, 135, 153) by her friend and disciple the
philosophic bishop Synesius.]