Excerpt from The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus of Plato, in Five Books, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing a Treasury of Pythagoric and Platonic Physiology

When I speak however, of the perspicuity with which these particulars are developed, I do not mean that they are delivered in such a way, as to be obvious to every one, or that they may be apprehended as soon as read for this pertains only to the fungous and frivolous productions of the present day, but my mean ing is, that they are written with all the clearness, which they are naturally capa ble of admitting, or which agenrrine student of the philosophy' of Plato can desire. And this leads me to make some remarks on the iniquitous opinion which, since the revival of letters, has been generally entertained ofthe writings of l'roclrrs and other philosophers, who are distinguished by the appellation of the latter Plato his'ts', nurl to show the cause from which it originated.

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