world was not generated, and is imperishable, and 

 indeed he proves it by most exquisite reasoning. 

 Censorinus also, De Die natali, cap. ii. says, ' that 

 the opinion that the human race is perpetual, has 

 for its authors Pythagoras the Samian, Ocellus 

 Lucanus, and Archytas of Tarentum.' He is 

 likewise mentioned by Jamblichus in his Life of 

 Pythagoras; by Syrianus in Aristot. Metaphys.; by 

 Proclus in his Commentary on the Timaeus of 

 Plato, who, as we have shown in the Notes on 

 Ocellus, demonstrates that he was wrong in ascri- 

 bing two powers only instead of three to each 

 of the elements ; and in the last place, this Tract 

 is cited by Stobaeus in Eel. Phys. lib. i. c. 24 : all 

 which testimonies clearly prove that Chalmers is a 

 man who cannot say with Socrates (in Plat. Gorg.) 

 ' that he has bid farewell to the honours of the 

 multitude, and has his eye solely directed to 

 truth *." 



To the treatise of Ocellus I have subjoined a 

 translation of a Fragment of Taurus, a Platonic 

 philosopher, On the Eternity of the World f ; 



* For nearly the whole of what is contained in the above three 

 paragraphs, I am indebted to my excellent friend Mr. J. B. Inglis, 

 who has also read Ocellus with great attention, and made Notes 

 upon it ; another proof that the work is not neglected. 



f- This Taurus flourished under Marcus Antoninus, and the 

 original of the above-mentioned Fragment is only to be found in 

 the treatise of Philoponus against Proclus, " On the Eternity of 

 the World." 



