Exhortation to Philosophy (Protrepticus)

English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.

The work in question is a 19th-century critical edition of Iamblichus' 'Protrepticus' in the original Greek (despite the Latin title page, which is standard for Teubner editions of Greek texts). While English translations of Iamblichus' 'Protrepticus' exist (e.g., the Greek original translated by Thomas Taylor or modern scholars), there is no evidence of a translation of this specific 1888 Latin-titled critical edition, nor is there a tradition of translating the Latin apparatus of such editions. The work is a Greek text, not a Latin one, and thus the 'first_from_source' determination applies as the original language (Greek) has been translated, but the specific scholarly edition has not.

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