Sacred Texts: The Classics

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: From Olympiodorus, in Aristot. Meteor.

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"It is requisite to know that the divine Proclus, in his Commentaries on the Timæus * of Plato, refers metals to the seven planets, and says, that lead is ascribed to Saturn, through its weight, dulness, and coldness. But electrum [or a metal composed of gold and silver] is referred to Jupiter, through the well-tempered and vivific nature of the star. In a similar manner, also, with respect to the metal which is called migma; † but the migma is more highly valued than gold, and is well tempered.

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: From Olympiodorus, in Aristot. Meteor.

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