Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. I

The text here resumes from the previous page's discussion of editorial practices regarding Proclus's commentaries.

...in this style of speaking, in declining nouns and verbs, and in treating syntax, he withdraws. But I acknowledge that it has not escaped me that there are things which could be added, for instance, regarding the usage of verb tenses. However, since the other commentaries of Proclus were not called upon for assistance, we judged that there was little profit in enumerating individual places that in no way relied upon the common consensus of all the books.

As we are about to publish the final books of Proclus’s Commentaries on the Timaeus, it remains for us to offer the greatest, well-deserved, and due thanks to Wilhelm Kroll of Münster, formerly of Greifswald. With the learning and knowledge of Neoplatonic diction that he possesses, he examined and emended the proofs of the three volumes with the greatest generosity.

Franciscus Boll of Würzburg read, corrected, and interpreted the astronomical sections contained in the fourth quaternion with the greatest kindness.

Hermann Kulot of Greifswald, a student of philosophy, at the request of Wilhelm Kroll, investigated for my sake the place in Plotinus on page 140, 10.

I wrote this in Freiburg im Breisgau on the 24th of June, 1906.