Welcker, in the introductory remarks to his Epischer Cyclus (§ 1), has given what appear to me sufficient reasons for not confounding this Proclus with the famous Platonist of the same name.
This and other curious fragments from the wreck of the old Hellenic epos, will be found in Becker’s Scholia to Homer (Berlin, 1825), or in the second volume of Welcker’s Epic Cycle (Bonn, 1849), in the Appendix.
See Thucydides, I. 9.
See Welcker’s Trilogie, Darmstadt, 1824, p. 408, who, however, here, as in other parts of the same learned work, expends much superfluity of ingenious conjecture on subjects which, from their very nature, are necessarily barren of any certain result.
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