Kurillos

A correspondent named Cyril (Greek Kyrillos), addressed in the dative as Kyrillo, who appears as the recipient of five letters drawn from the correspondence of Libanius and Isidore of Pelusium. Cyril/Kyrillos is one of the most common Greek personal names of late antiquity, and a figure attested only as the addressee of these letters cannot be securely identified with any of the famous bearers of the name (such as Cyril of Alexandria or Cyril of Jerusalem); the database record almost certainly aggregates one or more minor correspondents rather than a single well-known person. He is therefore best understood as an otherwise obscure correspondent, plausibly a notable, official, or fellow rhetorician within the eastern-Mediterranean milieu of these letter-writers (Libanius at Antioch in the later 4th century; Isidore in Egypt in the early 5th), known to us chiefly, if not solely, through this epistolary attestation. No reliable dates, offices, or biographical events should be assigned to him on the basis of the surviving evidence.