The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato is Proclus on Plato’s physiology of the world, in Thomas Taylor’s English. The title page of this copy is Volume I of two, London, 1820, printed by A. J. Valpy for the author at Walworth. The commentary is in five books. This volume contains Books I, II, and III, and it ends on printed page 472, still inside Book III. Book I treats the Atlantic narration as transactions that happened and as an image of the contrariety that runs through the world. The Athenians are the pupils of Minerva. The Atlantics are the progeny of Neptune.
Athens is given nine thousand years and Sais eight thousand. The island lay before the Pillars of Hercules, greater than Libya and Asia together. Marcellus, in an Ethiopic history, is cited for islands in the external sea and for a memory of that prodigious island. Ten kings, five pairs of twins from Neptune and Clites, held it. Earthquakes and deluges in one day and night sank the warlike Athenians and the island, and left the sea innavigable from mud. He will not let the magnitude be dismissed by anyone who encloses the earth in a narrow space.