 These scholia on the popular rhetorical treatises of Hermogenes of Tarsus (c. 160–225) are attributed to “Syrianus the Sophist,” i.e. the rhetorician. References to and citations from philosophical works abound (Plato, minor Platonists, Aristotle), and there are no good reasons to doubt that this commentary was in fact written by Syrianus the Neoplatonist, most probably before he assumed full leadership of the Academy. The work is addressed to the author’s favorite son Alexander (2, 3f.), who was presumably being honed to become an orator (rather than a philosopher). The work, although containing no philosophical argument, deserves closer study as it is full of references to major and minor authors, providing good evidence for the vitality of the literary tradition as a backdrop for pagan philosophy in late antiquity.