Introduction. I. Sources and Literature.
Baronius:* Ann. [1593] 439, 39. Cf. Pagi, Crit. [1689] 9, 11, 427, 15-6.
Bellarmin Labbé: S. E. [1728] 164.
Brunet:* Manuel [1864] V.425.
Cave:* S. E. [1741] I.427.
Ceillier:* Hist. Aut. Eccl. [1747] XIII. p.669-88. (2 a VIII.514-25.)
Darling:* Cyclopædia Bibliographica; Authors.
Du Pin:* Bibl. Aut Eccl. [1702] III. ii.183.
Ebed-Jesu: Cat. Scr. Eccl 29. (Assemani: Bibl. Orient. III.141.)
Fabricius:* Bibl. Græc. [1714] VI.117-21. (2 a VII.423-7.)
Graesse:* Trésor [1865] VI.1, 429.
Hoffmann: Lex. Bibl. Gr. [1836] III.625-6.
Holzhausen: Commentatio de fontibus quibus Socrates, Sozomenus ac Theodoretus usi sunt, &c. Götting.1825.
Jöcher.
Nouvelle Biog. Gen.:* [1868] XLIV.127-8.
Nolte: [2] Tübing. Quartalschrift [1860] 518; [1861] 417-51.
Patrologia Græca* (Migné) LXVII.9-26.
Sigebert: Gembl. S. E.10.
Tillemont: [3] Hist. des Emp. [1738] VI.119-22.
Trithemius: Scr. Eccl.137.
Vossius: Hist. Græca [1651] 259.
Walford: [4] in Bohn's Eccl. Libr. VI.1853.
To these there should be added important notices of Socrates or his Ecclesiastical History as follows:
F. C Baur: Die Epochen der Kirchlichen Geschichtschreibung Tübing.1852, p.7-32.
J. G. Dowling: An Introduction to the Critical Study of Ecclesiastical History.
Ad. Harnack: In Herzog-Plitt's Real Enkyclop. vol.14, Sokrates und Sozomenos and in Encyclop. Britannica, Socrates.
K. O. Müller: History of Greek Literature: English translation and continuation by Donaldson, Vol. III.
Rössler: Bibliothek der Kirchenväter.
Jeep: Quellenuntersuchungen zu der griech. Kirchenhistorikern. Leipsic, 1884.
Sarrazin: De Theodoro Lectore, Theophanis Fonte præcipuo, 1881.
Stäudlin: Gesch. und Literatur der Kirchen-geschichte, 1827.
Overbeck: Theol. Liter.-Zeitung, 1879. No.20.
Also articles on Socrates in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (by John Calrow Means) and Smith & Wace: Dictionary of Christian Biography (William Milligan), as well as passing notices in standard ecclesiastical histories such as Neander, Hase, Killen, Schaff, &c., and Introductory notices of Valesius (Hussey), Parker, Bright, &c.