_Hypatia_ married, yet said to die a Maid. _Isidorus_, her Husband, the most eminent Philosopher of his Time.
It would be as great a Prodigy in Nature as _Hypatia_ was herself, if a Lady of such Beauty, Modesty, Wisdom, and Virtue, were not by many eagerly sought in Marriage: And, in Effect, we find that she was actually married to the Philosopher _Isidorus_, tho’ _Suidas_ says she died a Maid; which is not so irreconcilable a Thing, as People may be apt to imagine on first Thoughts, but, as we shall shew, very likely to be true. This _Isidorus_ succeeded _Marinus_ in the School, and his _Life_ has been written by _Damascius_, one of _Theon_’s Scholars, who therefore had all imaginable Opportunities to know whatever regarded _Hypatia_ and _Isidorus_. His _Life_ was abridged by _Photius_, but we have it not so perfect as he left it; for besides the extreme Confusion and Incorrectness which appears thro’ the whole, the learned _Valesius_ gave the World Expectations, that he would, one Time or other, publish it twice larger than that we read now in _Photius_. However, in such as it still is, _Damascius_ bestows such Elogies on _Isidorus_, as put him almost above Humanity; yet, no way concerning _Hypatia_, I pass them over in Silence. I frankly confess, that I more than suspect many of the Things he reports as knowing that _Damascius_ was a great Visionary, and, like _Philostratus_ with respect to _Apollonius Tyaneus_, designed to oppose _Isidorus_ to those Christian _Saints_, who were celebrated for their miraculous and supernatural Attainments.