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The Lycian, a student of Syrianus,[1] and also a student of the philosopher Plutarch son of Nestorius,[2] and he [Proclus] himself a Platonic philosopher. He was the head of the philosophy school in Athens, and his student and successor is called Marinus the Neopolitan.[3] He wrote a great many works, both philosophical and grammatical. [He wrote] a commentary on the whole of Homer, a commentary on Hesiod's Works and Days, 3 books about practical instruction, 2 about education, 4 books on the Republic of Plato, On the Theology of Orpheus, the Parallels between Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato Concerning the Oracles, 10 books, [a book] about the gods in Homer, [and] 18 Dialectical Proofs against Christians.
This man is Proclus, the second after Porphyry[4] to set his foul and insulting tongue in motion against Christians; [the man] to whom John wrote, the one called Philoponus, who responded altogether marvelously to his 18 Dialectical Proofs and exposed him as unlearned and foolish even on Greek matters, on which he greatly prided himself.
Proclus wrote a book on the Mother,[5] which if anyone [were to] pick up and read, he will see that it reveals, with considerable divine inspiration, the whole theology surrounding the goddess, so that no longer is the hearing troubled by poorly resonating dirges.[6]

*pro/klos, o( *lu/kios, maqhth\s *surianou=, a)kousth\s de\ kai\ *plouta/rxou tou= *nestori/ou filoso/fou, kai\ au)to\s filo/sofos *platwniko/s. ou(=tos proe/sth th=s e)n *)aqh/nais filoso/fou sxolh=s, kai\ au)tou= maqhth\s kai\ dia/doxos xrhmati/zei *mari=nos o( *neapoli/ths. e)/graye pa/nu polla/, filo/sofa/ te kai\ grammatika/. u(po/mnhma ei)s o(/lon to\n *(/omhron, u(po/mnhma ei)s ta\ *(hsio/dou *)/erga kai\ *(hme/ras, *peri\ xrhstomaqei/as bibli/a g#, *peri\ a)gwgh=s b#, *ei)s th\n politei/an *pla/twnos bibli/a d#, *ei)s th\n *)orfe/ws *qeologi/an, *sumfwni/an *)orfe/ws, *puqago/rou, *pla/twnos peri\ ta\ *lo/gia bibli/a i#, *peri\ tw=n par' *(omh/rw| qew=n, *)epixeirh/mata kata\ *xristianw=n ih#. ou(=to/s e)sti *pro/klos, o( deu/teros meta\ *porfu/rion kata\ *xristianw=n th\n miara\n kai\ e)fu/briston au)tou= glw=ssan kinh/sas: ei)s o(\n e)/grayen *)iwa/nnhs, o( e)piklhqei\s *filo/ponos, pa/nu qaumasi/ws u(panth/sas kata\ tw=n i# kai\ h# e)pixeirhma/twn au)tou= kai\ dei/cas au)to\n ka)n toi=s *(ellhnikoi=s, e)f' oi(=s me/ga e)fro/nei, a)maqh= kai\ a)no/hton. e)/graye *pro/klos *mhtrw|akh\n bi/blon, h(\n ei)/ tis meta\ xei=ras la/boi, o)/yetai, w(s ou)k a)/neu qei/as katakwxh=s th\n qeologi/an th\n peri\ th\n qeo\n e)ce/fhnen a(/pasan, w(/ste mhke/ti qra/ttesqai th\n a)koh\n e)k tw=n a)pemfaino/ntwn qrh/nwn.

AD 410/412-485. See generally J.M. Dillon in OCD4 s.v.
[1] sigma 1662. Adler notes the view of Schoell and Praechter that some of the works attributed here to Proclus (between 'a commentary on the whole of Homer' and 'about the gods in Homer') should in fact be ascribed to Syrianus.
[2] pi 1794.
[3] mu 198; cf. mu 199. Marinus wrote a biography of Proclus, which is drawn upon for the last paragraph here (See note 6).
[4] pi 2098, pi 2099.
[5] cf. mu 1012.
[6] = Marinus, Life of Proclus 33 (see note 3); cf. theta 465, kappa 595.

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