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

thirteenth (XIII)
PREFACE

...in that style of speaking, he retreats in the declining of nouns and verbs and in the handling of syntax. But I profess that it has not escaped my notice that there are things that could be added, such as regarding the use of verbal tenses; however, since the other commentaries of Proclus were not called upon for assistance, we judged that there was little gain in enumerating individual places that did not at all rely on 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 our greatest, deserved, and owed thanks to Wilhelm Kroll of Münster, formerly of Greifswald, who examined and emended the proofs of the three volumes with the scholarly learning and knowledge of Neoplatonic diction that he possesses, and with the utmost generosity.
Franciscus Boll of Würzburg read, corrected, and interpreted the astronomical sections contained in the fourth quaternion with the greatest kindness.
Hermann Kvlot of Greifswald, a student of philosophy, at the request of Wilhelm Kroll, searched out for my sake the passage of Plotinus on page 140, line 10.

I was writing in Freiburg im Breisgau on the 8th day before the Kalends of July, in the year 1906.

Ernestus Diehl