Ocellus Lucanus: On the Nature of the Universe

...with the children of Ocellus. And indeed, regarding the laws, and kingship, and piety, and the origin of all things, we ourselves have them and have sent some. The rest, however, could not be found at present, and if they should ever be found, they shall be conveyed to you. Likewise, Laertius added in the same place a letter from Plato, in which he replied to this one, filled with praises of Ocellus of this sort:

Plato

The commentaries that came from you we received with wonderful pleasure, and we admired their writer as much as possible. And the man seemed to us worthy of those ancient ancestors, etc.

The commentaries which proceeded from you we received with wonderful pleasure, and we admired their writer as much as possible, and the man seemed to us worthy of those ancient ancestors, etc. Looking back upon which letter, that phoenix of wits, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, honored Ocellus with a noble eulogy in Book 1 Against the Astrologers thus:
Ioannes Picus.

Why also the same Ocellus the Lucanian in his book On the World: even by the testimony of Plato himself most eminent in philosophy. And Francesco Patrizi testified to this same thing throughout his Peripatetic Discussions, while he reviewed many passages of Ocellus from which he might extract Peripatetic dogmas even against Ocellus's will; there, indeed, in Book 7 he records that Ocellus preceded Hippocrates in age and had heard Pythagoras. From these testimonies it is certainly and abundantly confirmed that both the book On Laws and, furthermore, this elegant little work On the Nature of the Universe which we are now setting forth, were composed by Ocellus.
Franciſcus Patritius.

Moreover, that this little work On the Nature of the Universe which we have in hand is the very same one which it has just become known Ocellus wrote, is further confirmed by the authority of serious men who have recognized it.

For Caspar Barthius [mentions] Ocellus, and not without praise, when
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