Ocellus Lucanus, Firmicus Maternus, Select Theorems of Proclus (Thomas Taylor)

Stobaeus from his treatise On Laws. The former work was held in such high regard by Plato and Aristotle that, as Syrianus observes (in his commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics), Aristotle "has taken nearly all of his two books on Generation and Corruption from this work." That Plato was also anxious to see it is evident from his Epistle to Archytas, a translation of which follows:

"Plato to Archytas the Tarentine, prosperity.
"It is wonderful with what pleasure we received the commentaries that came from you, and how much we were delighted with the genius of their author. To us, he appeared to be a man worthy of his ancient ancestors. For these men are said to have been ten thousand in number, and, according to reports, were the best of all those Trojans who migrated under Laomedon."

In all editions of Plato, the text reads "ten thousand" (myrioi), consistent with the translation above. However, Diogenes Laertius, who includes this epistle in his Life of Archytas, suggests the true reading is "Myrenees"—meaning people of Myra, a city in Lycia, Asia Minor (see Pliny, 5.27; Strabo, 14.666). Although Thrasyllus and Diogenes Laertius attribute this 12th Epistle to Plato, it is marked as spurious in the Greek manuscripts.