Ocellus Lucanus: On the Nature of the Universe

...who report that Aristotle was not the first author of this opinion, but that it was certain Pythagoreans. But to me was offered the commentary inscribed On the Nature of the Universe by Ocellus the Lucanian, in which he not only set forth that the world is unbegotten and never to perish, but even proved it with the most exquisite reasons.

Censorinus.

Censorinus likewise confirms this in De Die Natali, chapter 2, in which place he said: But that prior opinion, by which it is believed that the human race has always existed, has as its authors Pythagoras the Samian, Ocellus the Lucanian, and Archytas of Tarentum. Aldus Manutius, the son of Paulus, agreed that he spoke there of our Ocellus in his notes to that passage, saying:

Manucius.

Ocellus the Lucanian) whose book exists $περ\grave{ι}$ $τ\tilde{η}s$ $τ o\tilde{υ}$ $παντ\acute{o}\varsigma$ $φ\acute{υ}σεω\varsigma$ [On the Nature of the Universe]. Wrongly elsewhere called Ceretus, or Coceius the Lucanian.
Canterus.

And Theodorus Canterus expressly proved it in Var. Lect. book 1, chapter 17, who corrected Syrianus, the interpreter of Aristotle, who in book 13 of the Metaphysics reads $\text{E}'κελλ o\varsigma$ [Ekellos] instead of $\text{O}'κελλ o\varsigma$ [Okellos], as is likewise read in the codex of Censorinus published in Paris in 1583 by Ludovicus
Lindenbergius.

Carrion, and in Louvain in 1628 by Erycius Puteanus, and likewise by Henricus Lindenborgius in his edition made at Hamburg in 1614; the latter declared in his notes that Censorinus had referred to the words of Ocellus which are found here in chapter 3, section 3. The elements enumerated in chapter 2, and the power of heaven over these lower things most learnedly handed down there, also acknowledge Ocellus as the author. For Sextus Empiricus, while reviewing the varying opinions of the ancients concerning the principles of things, in Adv. Mathem. book 9, last chapter, said:
Sextus Empiricus.

$\text{E}'κ$ $π\acute{ε}ντε$ $δ\grave{ε}$ $\text{O}'κελλ o\varsigma$ $\grave{o}$ $Λευκαν\grave{o}\varsigma$ $κα\grave{ι}$ $\text{A}ριστ oτ\acute{ε}λη\varsigma. συμπερι\acute{ε}λαβ oν$ $γ\grave{α}ρ$ $τ o\tilde{ι}\varsigma$ $τ\acute{ε}σσαρσι$ $στ oιχε\acute{ι}oι\varsigma$ $τ\grave{o}$ $π\acute{ε}μτ oν, κα\grave{ι}$ $κυκλ oφ oρητικ\grave{o}ν$ $σ\tilde{ω}μα, \text{ἐ}ξ$ $\text{o}\tilde{\tilde{u}}$ $λ\acute{ε}γ oυσιν$ $ε\tilde{\tilde{i}}ναι$ $τ\grave{α}$ $\text{o}\dot{υ}ρ\acute{α}νια$. (But Ocellus the Lucanian and Aristotle [derive things] from five. For together with the four elements they took up a fifth body, which moves in a circle, from which they say the celestial things consist.)

Picolomineus.

Which same thing regarding the primary qualities enu[merated] by Ocellus in the same place...