The Commentary of Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras

* See Suidas on Hierocles.

in short, a genius of the first rank. These features drawn of him are not imaginary, but we have the pleasure to see them confirmed by the testimony of some of his most eminent scholars *. His COMMENTARY is, undoubtedly, superior to any thing of the like nature, that has reached our times, as shining with a genius peculiarly beautiful, a sublimity of sentiment, adorned, at the same time, with an uncommon energy and beauty of style, so that no where are to be seen more sublime ideas concerning the nature and moral character of God, and more just sentiments relating to that of man.

THE following translation was undertaken by a gentleman of merit, about fifty years ago, for the late Mr. Jacob Tonson, of London, from Mr. Dacier’s French translation, compared with the original Greek.— In this edition the whole