the Egyptian, in which he treats of the secrets of sublime things, we are about to speak presently in Iamblichus, after I have commemorated, due to the account of time,

P R O C L U S

Morhof, Polyhistor, page 68.

of Byzantium, born of both Lycian parents, who devoted his effort to philosophy with such care and assiduity that he took the palm from many, and made it doubtful for others. Although he was otherwise of a wonderful gentleness of spirit, he followed all sects with a certain not-common veneration, and knew the opinions of the Stagirite Aristotle. no less than those of Plato, he nevertheless primarily embraced the doctrines of the latter, and inserted those things in harmony with them into his own books, which are extant. In these is a famous monument on Providence and Fate, and on that which is in our power, to Theodorus the Mechanic, whose manuscript Morhof observed in the library of Lucas Holstenius Morhof, as cited above., which by the force of a testament was transferred to Hamburg in the Joanneum library; where the same Proclus's book on Ten Doubts concerning Providence is found in Latin from the translation of William of Moerbeke, who translated most of this philosopher's works from Greek around the year 1280. If you desire to read the life of Proclus, there exists the account by Marinus, his disciple, who delineated it not inelegantly.