Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato

That this will be the first dialogue of Plato, and from which one must begin Platonic philosophy, which concerns that very matter;
That this dialogue is the Alcibiades.
Here the man, who is most versed in the history of Platonic interpreters and in all philosophical erudition, discusses what end all those who have dealt with such a matter before have judged the first Alcibiades to have, these being rhetoricians, those being dialecticians; and having shaken out and weighed all the interpretations, he professes to agree with the divine Iamblichus, who understood primarily at what the first Alcibiades was aiming. Therefore, with the rhetorical and dialectical instruments put aside and subordinated to our knowledge, and the end of the dialogue duly defined, Proclus acts on how it divides itself into parts, always keeping in mind what the end of the whole is.
Then he approaches the interpretation of the dialogue itself, and adheres to the very first words of Plato and examines them from every side, now extolling the art of Plato, now philosophy itself.