There are extant thirteen letters which are ascribed to Chion, and which are of
considerable merit; but they are undoubtedly spurious. Probably they are the composition of
one of the later Platonists.
Editions
They were first printed in Greek in the Aldine collection of Greek Letters, Venet.
1499, 8vo.; again, in Greek and Latin, in the reprint of that collection,
Aurel. Allob. 1606. The first edition in a separate form was by J. Caselius,
printed by Steph. Myliander, Rostoch, 1583, 4to.; there was also a Latin
translation published in the same volume with a Latin version of the fourth book of
Xenophon's Cyropaedeia, by the same editor and printer, Rostoch, 1584, 4to.A more complete edition of the Greek text, founded on a new recension of some
Medicean MSS., with notes and indices, was published by J. T. Coberus, Lips. and Dresd.
1765, 8vo.
The best edition, containing all that is valuable in the preceding ones, is that of
J. Conr. Orelli, in the same volume with his edition of Memnon, Lips. 1816, 8vo. It
contains the Greek text, the Latin version of Caselius, the Prolegomena of A. G. Hoffmann,
the Preface of Coberus, and the Notes of Coberus, Hoffmann, and Orelli. There are several
selections from the letters of Chion.