Proclus, Theologia Platonica; Michael Psellos (1550) - Page 5


Fol. 414.	Fol. 414.
A more complete explanation concerning the limma.	A more perfect exposition on the limma, or half-tone.
Beg. What the limma is.	End. ...the account of the things he sought.
Fol. 416.	Fol. 416.
Explanation of the Platonic charioteering of souls and the procession of the gods in the Phaedrus.	Exposition of the Platonic charioteering of souls and the army of the gods in the Phaedrus.
Beg. These Platonic sayings...	End. ...ridiculous things ridiculously.
Fol. 417.	Fol. 417.
Solution [of the question] how the [interval of the] fifth is hemiolic, and that besides the five figures no other figure consists that is enclosed by equilateral and equiangular [faces] equal to one another.	Solution, how the hemiolic is through five, and that besides the five figures no other consists circumscribed by sides and angles equal to one another.
Beg. Not by the measure of a letter...	End. ...it has no such account.
Fol. 419.	Fol. 419.
On Physical Number.	On physical number.
Beg. You wondered at the one who spoke according to...	End. ...but not arithmeticians.
Fol. 420.	Fol. 420.
On Ethical and Theological Arithmetic.	On ethical and theological arithmetic.
Beg. Just as there are numbers by nature...	End. ...let us receive the contemplations.
Fol. 422.	Fol. 422.
On the Divine Numbers according to us.	On our divine numbers.
Beg. You seem to me to wonder...	End. ...of quality and quantity.
Fol. 424.	Fol. 424.
On Rhetoric.	On rhetoric.
Beg. Beautiful indeed is that of Tarsus...	End. ...thus it is spoken by the rhetorician.
Fol. 426.	Fol. 426.
On the composition of the parts of speech.	On the composition of the parts of discourse.
Beg. You asked, most learned one, what it is...	End. ...both the difference and the power.
Fol. 427.	Fol. 427.
On the styles of certain writings.	On the characters of certain writers.
Beg. Those who [read] the book of Leucippe...	End. ...many things might come from one.
Fol. 429.	Fol. 429.
On Music.	On music.
Beg. True music, concerning which...	End. ...is proper to that [science].
Fol. 430.	Fol. 430.
Problems concerning the science of rhythm.	Problems for the rhythmic science.
Beg. Of the rhythmic science...	End. ...the iambic, the paeonic.


Fol. 432.	Fol. 432.
A brief introduction to astronomy.	A brief introduction to astronomy.
Beg. Let it be declared by me...	End. ...to overshadow the science.
Fol. 434.	Fol. 434.
A brief tradition of the thirteen paralogisms.	A brief tradition of the 13 paralogisms.
Beg. To collect for you into measure...	End. ...the same is not impossible.
Fol. 435.	Fol. 435.
On natural and acquired qualities, and on habit and disposition.	On physical and acquired qualities and on habit and disposition.
Beg. Of the qualities, concerning which...	End. ...from justice.
Fol. 437.	Fol. 437.
On relatives, and on figure, color, form, and power.	On those things which are toward something, on figure, color, form, and faculty.
Beg. Plato having defined...	End. ...and inability is unfitness.
Fol. 439.	Fol. 439.
Resources for arguments concerning genera.	A storehouse of attempts regarding genera.
Beg. Most noteworthy of those [arguments] toward the genus...	End. ...seeming to be, but not being.
Fol. 440.	Fol. 440.
On the dialectical question and on dialectic.	On the dialectical question and on dialectic.
Beg. Not a simple thing...	End. ...not contrary to expectation to those who know.
Fol. 442.	Fol. 442.
On the second book of the Prior Analytics.	On the second book of the Prior Analytics.
Beg. You asked what the aim is...	End. ...as many as are physical lessons.
Fol. 444.	Fol. 444.
A brief introduction to the mixture of propositions and the abundance of a proposition.	A brief introduction to the mixture of propositions and the certain knowledge of a proposition.
Beg. Behold for you the mixtures...	End. ...not to exist, but also that... the end is missing.

†. In the margin it is read that this also was collated with the prototype. Psellus composed about 30 very learned letters, according to the testimony of Casaubon. All these lucubrations, moreover, seem to have been made in the form of letters. Whence I infer that these are the letters of Psellus mentioned by Fabricius in volume V, page 48 of the Bibliotheca Graeca. But the beginning of the first, which he cites there, I do not find here. He also mentions in the same place that nine of his letters from these were published by Allatius after the Syntagma de Simeonibus in Greek and Latin. See the note. This must still be observed: the work of Psellus on the four mathematical disciplines, which appeared in Greek at Venice in 1532 in 12mo, has nothing in common with these lucubrations. In the old catalogue, only this inscription is found: "Letters of Psellus and various expositions on various passages of Plato."