In what Sense it might be said, that tho’ _Hypatia_ was married, yet she died a Maid.
Suidas likewise makes her the Wife of the same _Isidorus_, tho’ he be the very Man who tells us she died a Virgin. That Matter, considering the great Uncertainty in which we are left by the meditated Destruction or casual Decay of authentick Writers, I conceive to stand thus. _Damascius_ says, that _Isidorus_ had another Wife, whose Name was _Domna_, by which he had a Son call’d _Proclus_. She died the fifth Day after her Delivery, and, according to his Panegyrist, _she rid the Philosopher of an evil Beast and a bitter Wedlock_. Now supposing this to happen some Time before the tragical End of _Hypatia_, and that the latter was betrothed to _Isidorus_, it might very well be said that she was his Wife, and yet that she died a Maid. The Author of an _Epigram_, that was made upon her, seems to have been of the same Opinion.