To these there should be added important notices of Socrates or his Ecclesiastical History
as follows:
F. C Baur: Die Epochen der Kirchlichen Geschichtschreibung Tübing. 1852, p. 7–32.
J. G. Dowling: An Introduction to the Critical Study of Ecclesiastical History.
Ad. Harnack: In Herzog-Plitt’s Real Enkyclop. vol. 14, Sokrates und Sozomenos and in
Encyclop. Britannica, Socrates.
K. O. Müller: History of Greek Literature: English translation and continuation by
Donaldson, Vol. III.
Rössler: Bibliothek der Kirchenväter.
Jeep: Quellenuntersuchungen zu der griech. Kirchenhistorikern. Leipsic, 1884.
Sarrazin: De Theodoro Lectore, Theophanis Fonte præcipuo, 1881.
Stäudlin: Gesch. und Literatur der Kirchen-geschichte, 1827.
Overbeck: Theol. Liter.-Zeitung, 1879. No. 20.
Also articles on Socrates in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and
Mythology (by John Calrow Means) and Smith & Wace: Dictionary of Christian Biography
(William Milligan), as well as passing notices in standard ecclesiastical histories such as
Neander, Hase, Killen, Schaff, &c., and Introductory notices of Valesius (Hussey), Parker,
Bright, &c.
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Sources and Literature.