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Proclus

American  
[proh-kluhs, prok-luhs] / ˈproʊ kləs, ˈprɒk ləs /

noun

  1. a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.


Proclus British  
/ ˈprəʊkləs, ˈprɒk- /

noun

  1. ?410–485 ad , Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man."

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Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Had Vergil had an opportunity to read Proclus, some of this might have made its way into his text, but it is unlikely that he would have absorbed the concept of discovery.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A third was the priest Caius, one of the Roman clergy, famed as the adversary of Proclus the Montanist, unless he had already started on his missionary career as regionary bishop.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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