The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor.

  • Proclus
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1825
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Credit: The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of these learned men, indeed, conceived so highly of the merits of Proclus, as to say of him, “ that, like Homer himself, he ob- scures, by his own name, the names of all those that preceded him, and has drawn to himself alone the merits and praises of all [the Platonic philosophers].” The eulogy therefore, of Ammonius Hermeas, “ that Proclus possessed the power of unfolding the opinions of the ancients, and a scientific judgment of the nature of things, in the highest perfection possible to humanity,”* hrents. All these learned men have done me the honour to speak of me in the handsomest manner, both in the letters which I have received from them, and in the above-mentioned publications. The last of them, in particular, has adopted most of my emendations of the Greek text of the Theological Elements. * E< ri x.xi Yiptus dvvYi&ir/)/&iv tmvfyKur tw rov cruipyivuciv, ct7ror/iluovivcrccvTZs rojv zfyy/itrzav rov Bztov Yifisov didciB-xotXov TI^oxXov rov 7rXctro>vixcv $ix^o%ev, rov ug a
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