Proclus

American  

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

noun

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

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Proclus British  

/ ˈprəʊkləs, ˈprɒk- /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Proclus speaks of such a line as a gnomon, a common name for the perpendicular on a sundial, which casts the shadow by which the time of day is known.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene