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1 10 | 10. After having studied under
2 11 | 11. Although he was anxiously
3 12 | 12. On taking him into his
4 36 | Proclus left this world in the 124th year from Julian's accession
5 13 | 13. During this season of less
6 14 | 14. Besides, he acquired political
7 18(4) | reign of Marcus Aurelius (147-180 AD) by a certain Julianus
8 15 | 15. Nevertheless, sometimes
9 18 | 18. After having thus set forth
10 18(4) | of Marcus Aurelius (147-180 AD) by a certain Julianus
11 2 | 2. I shall not follow the
12 21 | 21. So the soul of this blessed
13 22 | 22. Provided with this sort
14 25 | 25. He possessed the temperance
15 27 | 27. One day while reading with
16 28 | 28. But since, as I said before,
17 3 | 3. If we may classify virtues
18 30 | 30. His choice of the philosophic
19 31 | 31. Here is one more fact
20 32 | 32. The god of Adrotta [in
21 34 | 34. After having rapidly and
22 35 | 35. But in order that persons
23 36 | 36. Proclus left this world
24 36 | accession to the empire [361] under the archonship of
25 37 | 37. A year before his death
26 38 | 38. The facts about our philosopher
27 28 | about his own destiny.~When 40 years old, he felt that
28 35 | in Taurus, at 24 degrees 41 minutes ~Mars in Sagittarius
29 28 | At the beginning of his 42nd year, he so seemed to be
30 36 | the seventeenth of April [485 Common Era]. His body received
31 5 | 5. It is well to bring out
32 35 | Sagittarius at 29 degrees 50 minutes ~Venus in Pisces,
33 35 | in Aquarius at 8 degrees 51 minutes~
34 6 | 6. Such were the physical
35 22(5) | reference is to Plato, Phaedo 69c-d, "The narthex-carriers are
36 7 | 7. That was the time when
37 22 | and writing much, about 700 lines. Nor did this labor
38 9 | 9. He was still studying when
39 29 | lamentations. Seeing her abandoned by the physicians, the father,
40 4 | voluntarily told a lie; lies he abhorred, and he cherished sincerity
41 1 | within the limits of my ability, when the duty to speak
42 26 | rule of life, his frequent ablutions, and other similar ascetic
43 36 | two souls find the same abode!~
44 23 | which I have at present abstained from doing, in the fear
45 12 | saw Proclus very rigidly abstaining from flesh food, he advised
46 33 | troubled by those seemingly absurd lamentations [for Attis]
47 36 | of them, he went to the Academy, in a certain particular
48 36 | 124th year from Julian's accession to the empire [361] under
49 19 | Well, such are the habitual accidents of life!" This maxim has
50 9 | to philosophy. The youth accompanied his teacher with much pleasure,
51 25 | possessed the temperance which accompanies this noetic order of virtues,
52 25 | all its perfection, its accompanying courage was manifested by
53 16 | sentiment nothing great might be accomplished in this world.~Yes, I will
54 16 | willing and able to make accurate and certain judgements in
55 6 | the moral virtues, and to accustom himself to love what duty
56 1 | documents and the oratorical achievements of the biographers of such
57 15 | conduct, he succeeded in achieving oblivion, even better than
58 18 | teaching their nature, how man acquires them, and especially by
59 29 | and was in sight of the Acropolis.~
60 33 | goddess [Cybele] spoke or acted in his favor; and their
61 14 | political virtues and methods, acting like the coaches who pace
62 28 | power of producing rains by activating, at the right time, a particular
63 5 | religious banquets, and all acts of life, without in any
64 | actually
65 18(4) | Marcus Aurelius (147-180 AD) by a certain Julianus the
66 13 | inspiring studies, to science he added virtue, increasing the moral
67 34 | brought out.~We have in addition enumerated those superiorities
68 32 | really blessed man could be adduced? After having received such
69 3 | represent his personality adequately.~His fourth bodily virtue
70 15 | partly constrain them to administer justice generally.~He watched
71 10 | him to the direction and administration of the School.~For at his
72 11 | then said to Syrianus this admirable expression of Plato's about
73 2 | foundation for this essay I shall adopt the happiness enjoyed by
74 11 | appear. So as to be able to adore the goddess alone and leisurely,
75 26(7) | philosophy as a means to advance the soul. Iambilichus wrote
76 26 | steps he was taking in the advancement of all the sciences. So
77 4 | un-covetous, never taking advantage, as foreign to arrogance
78 28 | flame, flies toward the aether, and with its immortal vibrations
79 5 | and his politeness and affability both in worldly gatherings,
80 4 | studies; he was liberal, affable, loving, and fraternal to
81 19 | the soul that was thereby affected; these involuntary movements
82 18 | and measure on irascible affections, and on sensual desires,
83 32 | openly showed this holy man's affinities with him. For when Proclus
84 31 | always feared that it would afflict him also; and in my opinion,
85 31 | certain persons he put on the afflicted foot a bandage. While he
86 | afterwards
87 | again
88 26 | to them. But they did not agree in choosing the same work,
89 3 | His appearance was most agreeable, for not only did he possess
90 32 | having vanished into thin air.~Proclus was therefore uncertain,
91 9 | favor to Theodorus, the Alexandrian governor, a man of great
92 4 | Love of gain was entirely alien to Proclus, to the point
93 19 | dulled their keenness by not allowing his most perfect part to
94 25 | moral disposition which allows itself neither to be touched
95 | almost
96 1 | sacrifices the suppliants at the altars present offerings not all
97 12 | zeal, sought to excite his ambition by saying to him that if
98 16 | degenerate into a passion. He was ambitious of glory only for virtue
99 30 | of the philosophic life amply proves how dear he was to
100 3 | These two are really quite analogous, for justice is a soul-habit
101 26 | which began with Plato's ancestor Solon; and with zeal did
102 36 | invoked the souls of his ancestors, collectively and separately;
103 26 | showed manifest signs of his ancestral virtues, which proved that
104 17 | rarely recorded among the ancients, that which bound them seems
105 15 | Athenians and the inhabitants of Andros, and elsewhere.~
106 12 | Proclus read Aristotle's De Anima, and Plato's Phaedo. After
107 27 | complete commentaries. He answered me that he had often planned
108 31 | whole life long without any anxiety about this subject, and
109 10 | thirst." Nicholaus, very anxious, had some brought him, not
110 11 | 11. Although he was anxiously invited by the teachers
111 | anyone
112 22 | his assured science not on apodictic and discursive syllogisms,
113 30 | had the feeling that this apparition would cure him from his
114 28 | initiate, witnessed the apparitions of Hecate under a luminous
115 31 | apparently, that I have to appeal to my courage to openly
116 11 | conjunction with the sun, began to appear. So as to be able to adore
117 34 | to him favorably, their appearances, their solicitude, and all
118 17 | most familiar servants, it appears from the last will of this
119 15 | the magistrates on matters appertaining to justice, and not only
120 14 | that he made no practical application thereof. So he encouraged
121 17 | urged them without delay to apply their art, and himself suggested
122 18 | prime, but even also when he approached his life's decline; and
123 27 | least paraphrase what he approved of in his master's books.
124 36 | Munychion, or the seventeenth of April [485 Common Era]. His body
125 12 | thus proving the student's aptitude for the finer things, Plutarch
126 19 | much worshipped among the Arabs, the Isis who has a temple
127 36 | the empire [361] under the archonship of the younger Nicagoras
128 4 | illustrated by his extreme ardor and overwhelming leaning
129 4 | divine things. From this arose a high-mindedness which
130 12 | conversations in writing, and to arouse his zeal, sought to excite
131 12 | solicitude that Proclus aroused in his teachers!~After the
132 14 | And indeed he succeeded in arousing in Archiadas a noble emulation,
133 10 | offered a prayer.~As he was arriving at the fortified gate, at
134 4 | advantage, as foreign to arrogance as to timidity.~
135 31 | recall without tears. Now arthritis is a disease which is frequently,
136 19 | Asklepius Leontuchus of Ascalon, Thyandrites who is much
137 35 | degrees 42 minutes ~The ascendant at 24 degrees 33 minutes
138 26 | ablutions, and other similar ascetic habits, had exhausted this
139 3 | definition given by the Asklepian healers [or physicians].~
140 29 | the sufferings that had assailed her, and who now was in
141 23 | For he was the first to assert the existence of a kind
142 11 | and at that time was an assiduous auditor of the philosopher,
143 8 | language, by his facility in assimilating this art, and by his appearing
144 18 | affairs so as to achieve assimilation to God, which is the most
145 34 | solicitude, and all their assistances, all the favors which he
146 6 | Athena], who as it were assisted his mother in childbirth.
147 16 | development of literary activity, assisting those who devoted themselves
148 7(1) | Telesphorus was a child-deity associated with Asclepius the healer-god.~
149 21 | temperance which consists in not associating with the inferior element
150 1 | also, by my attitude, to assure myself the praises of the
151 22 | beyond, establishing his assured science not on apodictic
152 19 | beaten down by it, a prey to atrocious sufferings, he was still
153 33 | know with what favor he was attached to this goddess, let him
154 22 | those who would or could attain their elevation, giving
155 32 | by the local officiating attendants that nothing had been seen
156 38 | reading without care and attention!"~Proclus or Concerning
157 28 | and was able to deliver Attica from a terrible drought.
158 1 | great sage; also, by my attitude, to assure myself the praises
159 23 | truth of all that we have attributed to him.~Still better would
160 11 | that time was an assiduous auditor of the philosopher, although
161 18(4) | during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (147-180 AD) by a certain
162 26 | too severe, nay, excessive austerity of his rule of life, his
163 27 | Syrianus, but also of many more authorities who had explored the depths
164 28 | Hermetic Chain; and, on the authority of a dream, he was convinced
165 22 | writings of the most ancient authors he studied thoroughly, and
166 16 | interest to fulfil their chosen avocations with zeal, questioning them,
167 6 | what duty commands, and to avoid the contrary.~
168 19 | of life.~That is how he avoided physical sufferings; and
169 | away
170 22(5) | narthex-carriers are many but the bacchantes (true initiates) are few."
171 22(5) | initiates carried the thyrsus or Bacchic wand. This was a wand or
172 31 | on the afflicted foot a bandage. While he was stretched
173 5 | worldly gatherings, religious banquets, and all acts of life, without
174 12 | The latter, on seeing this barely twenty-year-old youth, and
175 23 | had seen him, if one had basked in his presence, if one
176 19 | preservation, because it bears strong testimony to our
177 19 | last illness. Even when beaten down by it, a prey to atrocious
178 22 | seeing directly the really beatific visions from beyond, establishing
179 7 | a child, an exceedingly beautiful boy who, even before he
180 9 | difficult to comprehend by beginners.~
181 24 | return to the subject we had begun above. After having, however
182 17 | implored the gods on his behalf with ardent piety in sacrifices
183 21 | wisdom which consists in good behavior in the realm of contingent
184 33 | things little worthy of belief. For there were a considerable
185 32 | first glance it had been believed they were human beings;
186 28 | the divine tops.8 He was a believer in these practices, in unpremeditated
187 31(10)| Belonging to Apollo.~
188 24 | absolutely proper action, which belongs only to the thinking soul,
189 7 | Telesphorus.1 As he stood near, bending over the pillow, he announced
190 29 | Plutarche, and [now] wife of our benefactor Theagenes, being still small,
191 34 | all other human and divine benefits.~
192 31 | returning from Epidaurus,11 who bent over his legs, and without
193 14 | benefactions, and at his death bequeathed his fortune to Xanthus and
194 5 | His powerful memory never betrayed the least hesitation; he
195 9 | with philosophy wished to betroth her to him; and Heron did
196 1 | oratorical achievements of the biographers of such a man,----and besides,
197 23 | yearly celebrations of the birthdays of Socrates and Plato. It
198 36 | these questionings, and blamed him for harboring such thoughts.
199 36 | same tomb has received our bodies, May our two souls find
200 15 | but, with a philosopher's boldness would partly constrain them
201 17 | remained free from these bonds, he showed such a solicitude
202 28 | has mentioned in a special booklet.~He had the power of producing
203 19 | was overwhelmed by them he bore them with gentleness, and
204 23 | quite noticeable that he was borne along by a divine inspiration
205 21 | limiting oneself to setting boundaries to our passions, but desiring
206 7 | an exceedingly beautiful boy who, even before he announced
207 22 | force or value he set aside, branding them ridiculous puerilities.
208 3 | justly be called corporeal bravery.~The third bodily quality
209 19 | he did not allow it to break out at all, or rather it
210 28 | possessed by a spirit which breathes into me the force of fire,
211 5 | 5. It is well to bring out for those who never
212 28 | following verses: "Here broods an immortal splendor, that
213 10 | soon as his arrival was bruited about in Athens, Nicholaus,
214 1 | perilous undertaking.~But, brushing aside these requirements,
215 36 | in another part of the building, in common with others,
216 1 | the gods by offering whole bulls and goats, not to mention
217 18 | relieving us from the leaden burdens of the world of generation,
218 36 | carried by his friends, was buried in the most easterly part
219 32 | divinities, Proclus would burst into tears, every time he
220 5 | self-possessed, and had no business other than science. His
221 37 | Capricorn. The specialists who busy themselves with describing
222 1 | similar to offer, present only cakes, a few grains of incense,
223 10 | election which was, one day, to call him to the direction and
224 | cannot
225 8 | made himself famous in the capital.~While he was still young,
226 5 | detracting from his dignity, captivated his interlocutors, so that
227 8 | even became celebrated, capturing the admiration of his fellow
228 28 | was not merely social, he cared for those things which were
229 8 | proposed to follow the legal career of his father, who had thereby
230 30 | been willing to receive the cares demanded by his condition.~
231 37 | happen on earth; in any case they suggested to us the
232 13 | freed from sensation, may cast firm glances into the distance.~
233 8 | ancient Egyptian priestly caste, and who was so learned
234 32(12)| Castor and Pollux.~
235 3 | that no painter was able to catch his likeness, and that in
236 10(3) | philosophers would have ceased.~
237 23 | discourses at his yearly celebrations of the birthdays of Socrates
238 19 | animal food, but if a special ceremony compelled him to make use
239 2 | into regularly successive chapters; rather, as the most suitable
240 24 | and this was the eminent characteristic of our philosopher's intellectual
241 26 | inserted therein the most characteristically Chaldean hypotheses, as
242 28 | exclusively to one of the two characteristics suitable to divine beings,
243 15 | honorable character of those charged with public education, obliging
244 33 | happy, I would no doubt seem chattering vainly, to those who may
245 4 | lies he abhorred, and he cherished sincerity and veracity.
246 7(1) | Telesphorus was a child-deity associated with Asclepius
247 6 | were assisted his mother in childbirth. She might have been considered
248 16 | interest to fulfil their chosen avocations with zeal, questioning
249 30 | had been removed by the [Christian] people who move that which
250 15 | rendering service to entire cities, as he did to the Athenians
251 14 | friends, relatives, and fellow citizens, in everything showing himself
252 19 | salvation of not only a city, nor over the national customs
253 16 | themselves to such occupations, claiming from the magistrates distribution
254 3 | 3. If we may classify virtues as physical, moral
255 10 | Could there have been a clearer omen, and one whose interpretation
256 22 | these theories with as much clearness as vigor, and recording
257 10 | not arrived, I should have closed!" Could there have been
258 36 | souls of the dead.~His body, clothed and arranged as I have said
259 10 | personally, and was his co-national, from Lycia. So Nicholaus
260 14 | methods, acting like the coaches who pace runners, exhorting
261 3 | the extremes of heat and cold, and which remained unaffected
262 36 | souls of his ancestors, collectively and separately; and, in
263 6 | himself to love what duty commands, and to avoid the contrary.~
264 23 | this essay too much, by commenting on these details. He who
265 24 | for ideas, which he later committed to writing at the coming
266 26 | commentaries written on the Oracles communicated by the divinities.~It was
267 9 | make him his continuous companion.~Now it seems that Olympiodorus
268 3 | quality he possessed is comparable to temperance, to which
269 3 | was health, which is often compared to justice in the soul.
270 18(4) | in fragments. They were compiled during the reign of Marcus
271 30 | certain that he would have completely recovered his health if
272 29 | her back her health. On completing the religious ceremonies,
273 16 | If he found someone who complied with his counsels only with
274 26 | limited himself to praying, to composing hymns, to conversing with
275 9 | though they are difficult to comprehend by beginners.~
276 23 | pass, and who are unable to conceive more than a single idea
277 15 | philosopher more perfectly conceived what relates to the divinities.
278 21 | on gathering itself, and concentrating itself, separating itself,
279 15 | succeeded in gaining a clear conception of these doctrines, while
280 38 | and attention!"~Proclus or Concerning Happiness has been completed
281 24 | inadequately, related what concerns his theoretic wisdom, we
282 35 | he came into the world, conclude that the life which Fate
283 28 | Chaldean prayer-meetings and conferences, and even employed the art
284 15 | great practical wisdom, conferred with the magistrates on
285 31 | should have inspired him with confidence for the future; but even
286 28 | theoretic step, he did not conform his life exclusively to
287 34 | in all the steps he took conformed to perfect virtue, and that
288 24 | that its action absolutely conforms to Mind (Nous) and to God;
289 21 | with the body to acquire conjectural knowledge. It possessed
290 11 | and the moon, quitting her conjunction with the sun, began to appear.
291 19 | he was still trying to conjure the evil. He begged us in
292 38 | satisfy a duty imposed by my conscience, and to satisfy my debt
293 27 | Orphics, although he did not consent to do this work on all the
294 33 | belief. For there were a considerable number of episodes, that
295 24 | have spoken above does it consist of a plurality of parts,
296 18(4) | Julianus the Theurgist, and consisted of Zoroastrian influenced
297 25 | noetic order of virtues, consisting of the soul's internal conversion
298 22 | with a steady stride making constant progress in following the
299 6 | birth he was welcomed by the Constantinopolitan goddess Poliouchos [Athena],
300 15 | s boldness would partly constrain them to administer justice
301 32 | that those who came for consultation were cured of the most dangerous
302 19 | composition of his hymns, which contain homage and praises not only
303 19 | strike him, seeming to be contary to the usual course of events,
304 22 | syllogisms, but on what he could contemplate with his eyes, on the intuitions
305 22 | achieved greater and higher [contemplative] virtues, as if led by the
306 1 | I merely considered our contemporary philosopher Proclus's high-mindedness
307 21 | behavior in the realm of contingent things, and which can seem
308 9 | religion, and to make him his continuous companion.~Now it seems
309 3 | friends,----and all that so continuously as if each was his only
310 11 | was setting during their conversation, and the moon, quitting
311 12 | record the text of their conversations in writing, and to arouse
312 25 | consisting of the soul's internal conversion towards reason, and the
313 17 | with a zealous solicitude, convoked the physicians and urged
314 26 | predecessors into a compendium that cost him much labor, and which
315 15 | and not only gave them counsel, but, with a philosopher'
316 16 | someone who complied with his counsels only with negligence, he
317 26 | composed on the Oracles. Having counted them, he found that there
318 38 | people came from different countries to attend his courses, some
319 19 | peculiar to each people or country.~Nor did he, like so many
320 4 | disposition was no less than courageous.~This illustrates his youthful
321 19 | be contary to the usual course of events, he would on the
322 32 | uncertain, and hardly knew what credit to give to the facts related.
323 30 | condition, he saw a serpent9 creeping around his head, and from
324 17 | people in most dangerous crises.~As to his humanity towards
325 13 | writing, along with his own critical remarks, the doctrine which
326 18 | political virtues, which are crowned by friendship, and which
327 16 | disposition led him to put the culprit under obligations, and to
328 31(11)| center of the Asclepius cult.~
329 30 | that this apparition would cure him from his disease. But
330 32 | came for consultation were cured of the most dangerous maladies,
331 7 | touched the patient's head, curing him of his sickness, and
332 8 | great progress in their curriculum; for at the beginning he
333 34 | After having rapidly and cursorily exhibited the actions and
334 36 | he neglect to render the customary homages, and on fixed yearly
335 19 | city, nor over the national customs of a few people, but that
336 38 | person, and towards the Good Daimon to whom he had been allotted.~
337 15 | For his guardian spirit (daimonion) furnished him the occasion
338 10 | and all the gods and good daimons who watch over the preservation
339 37 | eclipse which caused nocturnal darkness during daytime; the stars
340 36 | homages, and on fixed yearly dates he went to visit the tombs
341 22 | from worshipping the sun at dawn, noon, and dusk.~
342 37 | nocturnal darkness during daytime; the stars appeared, and
343 12 | Proclus read Aristotle's De Anima, and Plato's Phaedo.
344 30 | philosophic life amply proves how dear he was to the goddess friendly
345 19 | of a distraction, or of a debauch of food, but on the contrary
346 38 | conscience, and to satisfy my debt of pious homage toward this
347 14 | Xanthus and Athens, after the decease of Archiadas. The latter
348 1 | all these reasons, I have decided that it was for me an obligation
349 6 | homeland, to Xanthus, a town dedicated to Apollo, and which thus,
350 8 | Egyptian Alexandria, already deeply imbued with the moral qualities
351 24 | therefore must be independently defined by itself. That which is
352 3 | the body. That is just the definition given by the Asklepian healers [
353 16 | him, as it does in others, degenerate into a passion. He was ambitious
354 15 | by the providence of the deity friendly to wisdom [Athena].~
355 17 | physicians and urged them without delay to apply their art, and
356 15 | public meetings where they deliberated on the town interests, proposed
357 3 | he possessed an extreme delicacy of the senses, which may
358 8 | still young, he took much delight in rhetoric, for he had
359 29 | Asklepigenia, who had just been delivered from the sufferings that
360 30 | willing to receive the cares demanded by his condition.~
361 22 | the night, for which he denied himself sleep; and further,
362 15 | him the occasion of this departure in order that he might not
363 27 | authorities who had explored the depths of theology, I begged the
364 36 | religion, and not through some deputy, but personally. After having
365 14 | political virtues, which he derived from Aristotle's political
366 8 | grammarian Orion, who was a descendant of an ancient Egyptian priestly
367 37 | who busy themselves with describing the daily weather mention
368 16 | subventions suited to their deserts. But in such matters he
369 21 | boundaries to our passions, but desiring to be absolutely exempt
370 29 | physicians. Archiadas was in despair, as the child was the family'
371 33 | divinity, and to relate in detail the protections and the
372 12 | of his ardent desire and determination to devote himself entirely
373 5 | life, without in any way detracting from his dignity, captivated
374 4 | even so they were highly developed in him. His was a great
375 16 | sentiments he favored the development of literary activity, assisting
376 33 | to report the particular devotion which he held for Pan, son
377 12 | he insists on it, let him die!" Such was the solicitude
378 14 | Republic. He was in this dilemma, that he could not mingle
379 22(5) | few." In the mysteries of Dionysius, the initiates carried the
380 29 | immortalized, and of the Dionysus temple near the theater,
381 32 | contrary, thought it was the Dioscuri12 who haunted that temple,
382 8 | both by his proficiency and diplomacy.~
383 18 | Orphic or Chaldean,4 such as dipping himself into the sea without
384 4 | meannesses, his soul being ever directed towards the universal and
385 10 | day, to call him to the direction and administration of the
386 22 | himself achieved seeing directly the really beatific visions
387 26 | Proclus the Chaldean. This disagreement hindered Syrianus from doing
388 38 | others, I would make them disappear from the eyes of our contemporaries,
389 37 | they suggested to us the disappearance and the eclipse of philosophy
390 7 | sickness, and then suddenly disappeared. This divine miracle testified
391 12 | he had found in him the disciple and successor he had long
392 38 | an honest story about his disciples and friends. For many people
393 18 | month. He practiced this discipline, rude as it was, not only
394 5 | opposed to rudeness and discourtesy; his taste was ever selective
395 3 | latter physical beauty may be discovered in a certain symmetry of
396 11 | leisurely, they tried to dismiss the youth who to them was
397 31 | feeling even a twinge of this disorder.~
398 3 | mutual agreement between the disordered elements of the body. That
399 37 | year after his death.~These disorders to which the heavens are
400 15 | exemplar of temperance. He even displayed political courage in a Herculean
401 13 | cast firm glances into the distance.~By an intense and unresting
402 36 | person traced out a third distinct space and offered a sacrifice
403 23 | illumination.~One day a very distinguished political personage named
404 19 | make this the pretext of a distraction, or of a debauch of food,
405 29 | hope, and naturally uttered distressful lamentations. Seeing her
406 16 | claiming from the magistrates distribution of a living pension, or
407 1 | refraining from "jumping over the ditch," as the vulgar say, by
408 12 | both their multiplicity and diversity, while simultaneously grasping
409 2 | example of most writers by dividing up my subject mathematically
410 28(8) | use of rotating tops for divination.~
411 28 | responses, and other such divinations, which he had learned from
412 28 | had experimented with the divinatory power of the tripod, and
413 1 | worth, the multitude of documents and the oratorical achievements
414 32 | gesture of his hand, and in a dramatic tone, with great force uttered
415 23 | from doing, in the fear of drawing out this essay too much,
416 26 | hypotheses, as well as the best drawn from the preceding commentaries
417 27 | been hindered by certain dreams of Syrianus who discouraged
418 19 | necessary pleasures of food and drink, he made use of them with
419 28 | deliver Attica from a terrible drought. He knew how to foresee
420 19 | with gentleness, and he dulled their keenness by not allowing
421 26 | longer attend to all his duties. In this condition he limited
422 30 | Athenian Lady wishes to dwell with you."~How high he stood
423 29 | suited him best, where had dwelt both Syrianus, whom he called
424 24 | activity. So, after having early shaken off slumber, as a
425 37 | of events which happen on earth; in any case they suggested
426 28 | He knew how to foresee earthquakes, he had experimented with
427 36 | was buried in the most easterly part of the suburbs, near
428 37 | when the sun was in the eastern center of Capricorn. The
429 19 | food, without even having eaten the night before; and he
430 15 | which reasons from cause to effect. In another respect he showed
431 17 | himself suggested some more efficacious remedy, and thus saved many
432 3 | living light, or miraculous efflorescence which shone over his whole
433 22 | sort of virtues, without effort, and with a steady stride
434 8 | magistrates who were governing Egypt, who received him among
435 19 | days observed among the Egyptians even more strictly than
436 24 | night was far from having elapsed, alone, in his bed, he composed
437 17 | that is, because he so elected it, having received many
438 10 | from his 'father',2 and the election which was, one day, to call
439 13 | Timaeus, written with utmost elegance and science. Through these
440 21 | associating with the inferior element of our being, not even in
441 22 | would or could attain their elevation, giving to all of them profoundly
442 18 | devoted to philosophy, by eloquent lessons teaching their nature,
443 | elsewhere
444 10 | which it had brought him, he embarked for Athens, so to speak
445 23 | between the Mind (Nous) which embraces all things together by a
446 24 | to God; and this was the eminent characteristic of our philosopher'
447 36 | Julian's accession to the empire [361] under the archonship
448 28 | and conferences, and even employed the art of moving the divine
449 14 | arousing in Archiadas a noble emulation, taught him liberality in
450 14 | application thereof. So he encouraged Archiadas to devote himself
451 | end
452 12 | philosopher Syrianus to endorse this advice about diet,
453 22 | true principles, he very energetically discussed, submitting it
454 16 | possible that without the energy inspired by this sentiment
455 28 | the force of fire, which, enfolding and entrancing my reason
456 36 | and when Proclus died we] engraved on [the vacant part of the
457 3 | himself to philosophy, and to enjoy the sweetness of well-being.
458 2 | advantages which permit the enjoyment of life; nor of the happiness
459 32 | doubt about it and desired enlightenment. Resting on numerous testimonies,
460 6 | precepts with the greatest enthusiasm. Shortly after his birth,
461 15 | suggestions rendering service to entire cities, as he did to the
462 34 | the whole, but it was the entirety. For we began by happiness;
463 10 | the fortified gate, at the entrance he met the porter, who was
464 28 | fire, which, enfolding and entrancing my reason in a whirl of
465 33 | 33. But if I was to enumerate all the facts of this kind,
466 34 | out.~We have in addition enumerated those superiorities which
467 33 | a considerable number of episodes, that were of almost daily
468 28 | the philosopher had, as epoptic initiate, witnessed the
469 26 | would live a number of years equal to the four-page folios
470 24 | of justice whose dignity equals this sort of virtues. Not
471 36 | seventeenth of April [485 Common Era]. His body received the
472 10 | Athens, so to speak under the escort of [divine] oracles and
473 25 | imperturbable in its real essence. In short, as says Plotinus,
474 15 | That is how was firmly established in him the virtue of courage;
475 22 | beatific visions from beyond, establishing his assured science not
476 30 | How high he stood in the esteem of Asklepius has already
477 13 | Aristotle's treatises on logic, ethics, politics, physics, and
478 22 | from giving purely oral evening lectures, from practicing
479 26 | were seventy of them. The eventual close of his life proves
480 29 | his prayers in spite of everybody, so as to preclude any possibility
481 7 | since his birth became most evident. One day he was suffering
482 37 | second one which was to occur exactly one year after his death.~
483 24 | bed, he composed hymns, examined certain theories, and searched
484 16 | zeal, questioning them, and examining all the minutiae of their
485 2 | I shall not follow the example of most writers by dividing
486 3 | his neglect of food, by excess of work by day and night,
487 26 | weakened. The too severe, nay, excessive austerity of his rule of
488 25 | scorning this very life, he exchanged it for another, the life
489 12 | arouse his zeal, sought to excite his ambition by saying to
490 11 | although his art in sophistry excited as much admiration as Homer'
491 15 | himself, so to speak, an exemplar of temperance. He even displayed
492 1 | qualities which the philosopher exemplified in his life, and to relate
493 21 | desiring to be absolutely exempt from all passion. It possessed
494 19 | the holy and purificatory exercises he practiced, in his austere
495 26 | similar ascetic habits, had exhausted this constitution that nature
496 34 | having rapidly and cursorily exhibited the actions and fortunate
497 14 | coaches who pace runners, exhorting him to direct the affairs
498 10 | never heard tell that there existed there a place sacred to
499 4 | veracity. What else could be expected from a man who was to achieve
500 27 | threats. Thinking of no other expedient, I suggested that he at
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