Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato (Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.27)

he says that recognition is changed from ignorance. By saying "know," which is the perfection of the soul. But those celestial bodies always know. So it applies only to the rational nature. This is what remained of this epigram for Apollo; and at the Egyptian temples, the mirrors placed before the shrines have the same power as the Pythian inscription, for they set these up for the sake of knowing themselves, always revealing things through riddles, just as the Greeks do through letters. And again, the first chapter of Plotinus original: "πλωτίνου", inscribed in the Enneads original: "ἐννεάδι", "What is the animal, and what is man?" There he shows the animal to be the compound, and man to be the soul. This is also what Alcibiades is for Plato, having such a scope in those things where there is action.

O son of Cleinias, I suppose you wonder, after the scope being threefold, according to Proclus original: "πρόκλειον" and Damascius original: "δαμάσχιον" the exegetical one, that is, the one who judges the interpreters, come let us also examine the usefulness of the present dialogue, which is also threefold. For the present dialogue contributes to us: