Critical remarks and corrections to the new edition, with Italian translation and commentary (I. Eramo, Bari 2010), of the fifty-eight chapters of the so-called Rhetorica militaris ascribed by modern scholarship to Syrianus Magister, who is considered as the author of a military compendium constituted by two other sections, De re strategica (of the Anonymus Byzantinus) and a treatise on naval warfare (Naumachia). Twelve passages are discussed: 1, 1-2 (p. 37, 1-12 E.; tr. p. 36); 2, 2 (p. 39, 4-10 E.; tr. p. 38); 4, 1 (p. 41, 10-17 E.; tr. p. 40); 9, 1 (p. 47, 9-15 E.; tr. p. 46); 16 (p. 55, 18-25 E.; tr. p. 54); 18, 2 (p. 57, 16-25 E.; tr. p. 56); 27, 1 (p. 67, 25-26 E.; tr. p. 66); 36, 10-11 (p. 81, 6-16 E.; tr. p. 80); 39, 2-3 (p. 85, 6-11 E.; tr. p. 84); 41, 1-2 (p. 87, 19-27 E.; tr. p. 86); 47, 1 (p. 99, 1-3 E.; tr. p. 98); 57, 5-6 (p. 111, 19-24 E.; tr. p. 110).