C. There are twenty-seven Excerpts, from otherwise

lost Sermons, by John Stobdeus, a Pagan scholar of the
^ Beitaenitem (R.X Poimandrei: ^udien zur griechMi- Ogyptuehm undJriUichnitlichm LiimUur (Leipzig ; 1904).
> Variously translated, or metamorphosed, as PcBmandres^ Ftemander, Posmandre, Pymandar, Pimander, Pimandre, Piman- dro. Already Patrizzi, in 1591, pointed out that only one treatise eoold be called by this title ; but, in spite of this, tiie bad habit inaugurated by the tdHio pnnceps (in Latin translation) of Maraiglio Fidno has persisted to the last edition of the text by Pferihey (1864) and the last translation by Chambers (1862).
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end of the fifth or hegmning of the sixth century, who was an immense reader and made a most valuable collection of extracts from Greek authors, though studiously avoiding every Christian writer. Some of these Excerpts are of great length, especially those from the Sermon entitled "The Virgin of the World" ; these twenty-seven Excerpts are exclusive of extracts from Sermons still preserved in our Corpus.